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Former Time international editor and executive editor who joined Open Philanthropy, now Coefficient Giving, in July 2024 and leads its communications team.
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2026-09-23 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 ↩︎