Geeta Anand

Geeta Anand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she has served since 2018 and is currently on leave for the 2025–26 academic year. She holds a B.A. in History (Honours) with a Women's Studies Certificate from Dartmouth College. Anand built a 27-year journalism career starting at the Cape Cod News, followed by coverage of local government and courts at the Rutland Herald in Vermont. At the Boston Globe, she was City Hall bureau chief and covered the Massachusetts State House. For 17 years at The Wall Street Journal, she covered the biotech beat and investigative reporting, authoring two of the ten stories in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning series on corporate corruption. She was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her lead story in a series on U.S. hospitals rationing healthcare to reduce costs. Born and raised in India, Anand spent nearly a decade there as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Anand joined Berkeley Journalism as director of the Investigative Reporting Program in 2019, became interim dean in 2020, and then permanent dean—the first woman and first woman of color to lead the school—serving a five-year term until 2025, after which she plans to return to full-time teaching and writing. She authored the non-fiction book The Cure (2009), detailing a father's effort to found a biotech company to treat his children's rare genetic disorder, later adapted into the 2010 film Extraordinary Measures starring Harrison Ford. Her honors include the 2006 Gerald Loeb Award for a series on high drug prices, the 2007 Victor Cohn Award for medical science writing, the 2013 Danny Pearl Award for investigative reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis, and multiple Society of Publishers in Asia awards for business reporting on India's challenges and breaking news coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks and 2017 Bangladesh restaurant terror attack. In 2023, she received the SPJ NorCal Distinguished Service to Journalism Award for establishing the California Local News Fellowship. Her expertise encompasses journalism, healthcare, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, and international affairs.

Professional Email: geeta_anand@berkeley.edu