Ravi Agrawal | |
|---|---|
 Agarwal in 2018 | |
| Born | (1982-10-16)16 October 1982 (age 42) London, UK |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Foreign Policy |
| Title | Editor In chief |
Ravi Agrawal (born 16 October 1982) is a journalist, television producer and author of the bookIndia Connected. He is currently the editor in chief ofForeign Policy magazine.[1] Previously, Agrawal worked for the U.S. news channelCNN for 11 years, spanning full-time roles on three continents.[2] His most recent position at the network was as CNN's New Delhi Bureau Chief and correspondent.[3]
Agrawal now lives in New York City.
Agrawal began working at the Washington, D.C.–based magazine and website in April 2018 as its managing editor.[4] He was named Editor in Chief in November 2020.[5]
Agrawal's essay "India Has a Mindset Problem" was part of a selection of FP articles nominated for the 2020 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary.
He is a frequent commentator on world affairs on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and on NPR.
From 2014 to 2017, Agrawal managed CNN's multi-platform news gathering in South Asia.
Agrawal reported regularly on-air for CNN International[6] and CNN.com. He covered a breadth of stories from the region, including economics, foreign policy,[7] and breaking news stories. Agrawal reported for CNN International's award-winning Freedom Project series, including a report on child slaves in rural Uttar Pradesh.[8]
From 2011 to 2014, Agrawal lived and worked in New York City. He was the senior producer of CNN's Sunday world affairs programFareed Zakaria GPS.Agrawal was part of the program's 2012 Peabody Award-winning team,[9] as well as its three Emmy nominated programs across 2012[10] and 2013.[11]
Agrawal began his career in TV journalism at CNN International in 2006, where he worked across the network's news and business programs. In 2009, he helped launch the London prime time programConnect the World and served as its senior producer.
Agrawal'sIndia Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Biggest Democracy released in September 2018 in India, November 2018 in the United States, and January 2019 in the United Kingdom.
Writing for theWall Street Journal, novelistMegha Majumdar pickedIndia Connected as among the "five best" books on India today.[12] A review in the UK'sFinancial Times described the book as "timely and absorbing" and "hard to put down",[13] while theNew Statesman's reviewer Oliver Balch called it "smart, sympathetic, and highly readable."India Today said "most books on India's tech and telecom boom quickly get dated. The stories inIndia Connected are timeless and will age well into nice snapshots of history."[14]
Agrawal was born in London, England and raised in Calcutta, India. After finishing high school in India, he attended college atHarvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked forThe Harvard Crimson.[15]
He married Emma Vaughn in 2013.[16]
Until 2016, Agrawal was aYoung Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum,[17] and has served a two-year term on the group's Global Agenda Council on India.[18]
In 2016, Agrawal was named anAsia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in New York.[19]
