Bina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe , she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and taught in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. Her book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age was published in September 02019.