Berkley Center

Rob Lalka is the Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business at Tulane University. He previously served in the U.S. Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships and on the policy planning staff. Lalka’s debut book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power (2024), was critically acclaimed by Kirkus Reviews as “clear-eyed, well researched, and morally uncompromising.” During its first week, the book became a bestseller in business ethics, and it was the #1 new release in venture capital and computers and technology.