TED Fellows

Welcome to the TED Fellows program!

The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED's members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more. Next: Learn what the Fellows program is all about »

Announcement: TED is thrilled to introduce the TEDGlobal 2010 Fellows! Meet them here »

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Here's a glimpse of a few of the current TED Fellows:

  • An artist working with structural color
  • The founder of the first nationwide emergency response system in India
  • An evolutionary biologist working to catalog microbial diversity
  • A nationally ranked slam poet
  • An Israeli sculptor teaching creative visual workshops for the blind
  • A Yemeni anti-censorship activist
  • A forensic wildlife biologist from Brazil
  • A Kenyan organic industry entrepreneur
  • An open-source fabrication evangelist
  • An Iranian documentarian
  • The founder of a business incubator in Kampala
  • A biotechnologist working on a pocket-size thermal cycler for rapid PCR