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Preeta Bansal
Preeta Bansal is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and a Senior Advisor at MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines, positions she has held since 2014. She is also President of Social Emergence Corporation, a not-for-profit founded in May 2015, which focuses on empowering human networks and community relationships. From 2012 to 2013, Ms. Bansal served as a Global General Counsel for HSBC Holdings. She has served on the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, as a non-government member, since December 2011 and previously served as a government member and Vice Chairman from 2010 to July 2011. From 2009 to 2011, Ms. Bansal served as General Counsel for the Office of Management and Budget. She was Partner and head of the Appellate Litigation Practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP from 2003 to 2009. She served as a member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2003 to 2009, and as Chair from 2004 to 2005. She was Solicitor General of the State of New York from 1999 to 2001. Early in her legal career, she served as law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Ms. Bansal is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. |