---
category: "Authors & Journalists"
tags:
  - Person
  - Journalist
  - TimeMagazine
  - OpenPhilanthropy
  - EffectiveAltruism
summary: "Former Time international editor and executive editor who joined Open Philanthropy, now Coefficient Giving, in July 2024 and leads its communications team."
relations:
  - type: employed_by
    with: "[[Time]]"
    role: "reporter, later international editor and executive editor"
    end: 2024
    fn: 1
  - type: employed_by
    with: "[[Open Philanthropy]]"
    role: "managing director, communications"
    start: 2024
    fn: 1
  - type: employed_by
    with: "[[Newsweek]]"
    fn: 1
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---

Naina Bajekal is a journalist and the managing director for communications of Coefficient Giving, the name taken in November 2025 by [[Open Philanthropy]], the grantmaker of [[Dustin Moskovitz]] and [[Cari Tuna]]. She joined in July 2024.[^1]

### Journalism

Bajekal holds a B.A. in English literature and modern languages from the [[University of Oxford]]. She began as a reporter in the [[London]] bureau of *[[Time]]*, held editing roles at *[[Newsweek]]*, [[Magnum Photos]] and the [[Fuller Project]], and returned to *Time* in 2018, where over six years she was international editor and executive editor, edited more than 30 cover stories and launched Women of the Year and the TIME100 AI list.[^1]

### Coefficient Giving

In December 2025 *[[Semafor]]* reported that *Time* had hosted four fellows of the [[Tarbell Center for AI Journalism]], most of whose funding came from Coefficient Giving. Bajekal said Coefficient had "no involvement in coverage decisions" and that AI held "enormous potential to accelerate science and fuel economic growth."[^2]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Coefficient Giving. "Naina Bajekal." Team page, archived May 23, 2026. http://web.archive.org/web/20260523180247/https://coefficientgiving.org/team/naina-bajekal/
[^2]: Tani, Max. "AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms." *Semafor,* December 7, 2025. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-at-top-newsrooms