People – Brown Institute

Bernd Girod

Professor, Director Emeritus, Stanford University

Eve Burton

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Hearst Corporation

Frank A. Bennack Jr.

Chief Executive Officer, Hearst Corporation

Mary Meeker

Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Richard Witten

Founder, Columbia Entrepreneurship, Columbia University

Annie Mendez is a Panamanian-American journalist based in New York City. Since 2015, she’s been overseeing the development of El Tabulario, an open-data repository for Panama’s public numbers, as a Brown Institute Magic Grantee and Fellow. Before El Tabulario, she co-founded Nueva Nación, a digital media platform that provides analyses and summaries of political and economic news in

Charles Berret

Charles Berret is a Ph.D. student in Communications at Columbia, a fellow at the Brown Institute, former fellow at the Tow Center, and past recipient of a Magic Grant. He is writing a dissertation on the conceptual origins of modern cryptography. Recent publications include a nationwide study of data journalism education, a report on the

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