Prannoy Roy
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Prannoy Roy (born on October 15, 1949) is an Indian media figure. He is founder and the president of New Delhi Television (NDTV).
Roy attended The Doon School, Dehradun and went to Haileybury (UK) for his A-levels. He graduated in Economics from the University of London's Queen Mary College in 1973. Then he got his Ph.D from the Delhi School of Economics where he also taught for a year. He worked as Chartered Accountant for some time and later joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers, India before moving over to television.
He rose to fame with the program The World This Week and the election coverage with Vinod Dua on Doordarshan. He has also worked for the STAR TV. He specializes in covering elections. He is also a well-known economist and has served as an economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance.
He is married to Radhika Roy (sister of Brinda Karat), who is a speech therapist and the vice-president of NDTV. He is the cousin of award winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy.
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