Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Faculty at Harvard University. She has previously held positions at Stanford University, Columbia University, and the European University Institute, and some of the world’s most prestigious Fellowships including at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). 

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Antara’s a rare voice who brings together rigorous scholarship and powerful storytelling. Known for her boldness, originality, and intellectual range, she translates complex global challenges —economics, technology, climate, and democracy—into compelling narratives that are as entertaining as they are illuminating. Blending insight with wit, drama, lyricism and a striking sense of imagination, her talks, by finding the human story, don’t just inform audiences—they move them. 

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She is a highly sought-after speaker on the world stage, having addressed audiences at institutions such as Google DeepMind, the United Nations, the Cambridge Union and the Plenary of the European Financial Congress, where she was in conversation with Nobel-laureate and former President Lech Wałęsa. She has also spoken at the Asian Leadership Conference in Seoul, delivered keynotes at universities, think tanks, chambers of commerce and to governments, and appeared alongside leading global thinkers including Anne-Marie Slaughter, Joseph Stiglitz, and Nicholas Stern.

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Her work has been featured across major global media, including Germany’s DW, Japan’s NHK, Al Jazeera and Yahoo Finance. She is a widely published writer, with viral essays, op-eds and commentaries appearing in The Atlantic, WIRED, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, El País, and The Globe & Mail. Her popular monthly column for Project Syndicate has appeared in 150 countries. Her ideas have been covered by the Financial Times, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, and other leading outlets, and she was named a “Thinker of the Year” by Colombia’s El Espectador. Her research has been supported by major global funders including the European Research Council, UKRI, the Templeton Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation. Her research has informed institutions such as the World Bank and the White House, and she has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Justice Project, the Law Society of Scotland and a slew of other organizations.

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Her forthcoming book, EVERYMAN, will be published by Simon & Schuster in the United States and Penguin Random House in the United Kingdom in September 2026, with over a dozen international editions to follow.