Bina Venkataraman

A celebrated speaker, Bina Venkataraman has spoken in hundreds of venues, including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the U.S. State Department, Summit LA, VERGE, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Brooklyn Book Festival, Chicago Ideas Week, and university campuses around the world. She delivered the 2021 Commencement address at the University of Southern California.

For inquiries about speaking engagements:

Join moderator Lesley Stahl, correspondent for 60 Minutes, for a Roundtable discussion that applies the expertise and perspective of Stanford's brain trust and the vision of global leaders to what may be the most compelling issue of our time: climate change.
In a talk that draws on her new book The Optimist's Telescope, Bina Venkataraman, the Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, illuminates our untapped power to think longer term.

Selected Writings