Lavina Talukdar

Senior VP & Head of Investor Relations, Moderna

Search every verified Lavina Talukdar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2022 TEDxBoston talk, Lavina Talukdar, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at Moderna, discussed her career path and her early conviction in the company. She stated that she was tasked with making the first direct investment recommendation for a sovereign wealth fund and that Moderna was her first choice, a process she said took ten months of due diligence. Talukdar described herself as a contrarian who gravitates toward "off-the-beaten-path companies." She noted that after the fund invested in Moderna, she saw the company was looking for an investor relations representative on LinkedIn and thought, "I could do that and I could probably do it really well." During the talk, Talukdar emphasized the importance of communicating a vision to investors, stating that "capital is important because before you are successful you want to make sure that you can take this technology and keep moving it forward." She also described data as "currency," citing Moderna's use of data to expand its pipeline. Looking ahead, she said she would place her next bet on companies working on the "science of aging and longevity."