Arati Prabhakar

Arati Prabhakar served in President Biden’s cabinet as his science and technology advisor and as the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She is currently an Executive Fellow in Advanced Technology Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Arati previously served as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the private sector, she was chief technology officer for a specialty materials manufacturer, a venture capitalist investing in startups in semiconductors and cleantech, and the founder of an innovation nonprofit.