Arati Prabhakar
Executive Fellow in Applied Technology Policy
Focus
Former Science and Technology Advisor to President Biden and Director White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Biography
Arati was President Biden’s science and technology advisor and led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy 2022–25. Her four decades of professional contributions span the public and private sectors. She has led DARPA and NIST, been a partner at an early-stage VC firm and a senior corporate executive, and started an innovation nonprofit. Today, Arati advocates for science, technology, and innovation for our future: speaking for publicly supported R&D, encouraging bigger and better ambitions for AI, and developing a project to tell the 1000-hero stories of great American innovations.