The IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Meir Feder of Tel Aviv University has been named the 2024 Padovani Lecturer. The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift by Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The award provides for an outstanding member of the information theory community to deliver a lecture at one of the Society’s Schools of Information Theory for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.