Bina Venkataraman
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Bina Venkataraman is an author, journalist, and science and tech policy expert who currently serves as Editor-at-Large for Strategy and Innovation and the inaugural Columnist of the Future at The Washington Post.
From 2019 to 2022, she served as Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe, overseeing the news organization’s opinion coverage and editorial board; during her tenure, the Globe had two Pulitzer Prize finalists for editorial writing. She is the author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age (Riverhead, 2019), named a top business book by The Financial Times and a best book of the year by National Public Radio.
Venkataraman has taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT and the Harvard Kennedy School, and worked in the Obama White House on climate innovation. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Media, Politics, and Public Policy; on the Getty Museum's PST ART advisory council; and on the MIT Corporation’s Visiting Committee on the Humanities. She served as a juror for the 2021 and the 2024 Goldsmith Prizes for Investigative Reporting.
