Lara Stein is a distinguished leader with a track record of
founding, developing, and expanding global organizations at the
nexus of technology, education, innovation, and sustainability.
Stein offers strategic advice to financial institutions, family offices
(including the Bedari Foundation and MJF), cultural organizations
(such as the Qatar Museum Authority), as well as technology
startups and policy groups (like Future US), guiding their
overarching vision, strategic planning, and regenerative initiatives.
Stein founded and was the CEO of Boma Global, a global
network of local partners, offering transformational learning
experience for a smart, ethical, and sustainable future. Stein sold
Boma remains an advisor.
Stein was the Founder and Director of TEDx. In 2007, she led the
effort to bring TED to the world by developing a program that
granted free licenses to third parties to organize independent
TED-like events. In the first five years of TEDx, she grew the
program into a global phenomenon with over 50,000 talks given at
more than 8,000 TEDx events in 1,200 cities in 133 countries and
over one billion views on YouTube. By Dec. 2013, eight TEDx
events, on average, were being organized every day in one of
133 countries.
Under Stein's leadership, TED expanded to include TEDxWomen,
TED events dedicated to women’s empowerment, and the inclusion
of youth audiences with the creation of TEDYouth and
TEDxYouth. Stein also created the TEDx corporate event
platform, and TEDx in a Box. While leading TEDx Ms. Stein
simultaneously held the position of Director of the TED Prize,
taking it from a $100,000 to a $1,000,000 Award and designed
the team and operational infrastructure.
Stein was the architect and founding community member of
ReGenDAO. ReGenDAO is a fund with a soul and a first-of-its-kind
platform, marketplace, and global community, to radically
reimagine, reconceive, and restructure how we fund future
regenerative projects and systems by leveraging bankers,
scientists, entrepreneurs, and futurists.
Stein also held the position of Managing Director at Singularity
University where she was responsible for Singularity University's
global expansion, as well as the Executive Director of Women’s
March Global, the global sister organization of Women’s March,
Inc. in the US.
Stein previously acted as the Executive Director of MIT ReACT,
an institute-wide organization at MIT dedicated to developing a
global educational platform for displaced populations and
refugees.
Stein has also held leadership roles at Microsoft, Marvel, iXL, and
WGBH.
Current and previous boards: CorpsAfrica, Equality Now, Lalela,
Lung Cancer Research Foundation and We Are Family
Foundation, Boma Global.