Ravi Agrawal

Ravi Agrawal is a journalist and TV producer.[1] He is currently CNN's India Bureau Chief.[2]

He was born in London, England and raised in Calcutta, India. After finishing high school in India, he attended college at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, where he worked for The Harvard Crimson.[3]

Agrawal has worked for CNN International since 2006. In 2009, he launched the London prime time program Connect the World.[4] He then moved to New York City in 2011 as the Senior Producer of CNN's world affairs program Fareed Zakaria GPS.[5]

Agrawal is now based in New Delhi, from where he manages CNN's multi-platform news gathering in the region. Agrawal writes columns for CNN.com [6] and appears on-air on CNN International to analyze trends and developments in South Asia.

According to his CNN profile Agrawal has produced from New Delhi high profile interviews with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Barack Obama.

Ravi is a Young Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum [7] and also serves on the group's Global Agenda Council on India.[8]

References

  1. http://edition.cnn.com/profiles/ravi-agrawal
  2. http://www.exchange4media.com/54663_cnn-international-appoints-ravi-agrawal-as-new-delhi-bureau-chief.html
  3. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/21/salaam-bombay-calcutta-indiaafter-new-yorks/
  4. http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/20/tonights-the-night/
  5. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/09/whos-the-problem-people-or-politicians/
  6. http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/06/opinion/agrawal-india-vote-u-s-relations/
  7. http://www.globalshapers.org/shapers/ravi-agrawal
  8. http://www.weforum.org/content/global-agenda-council-india-2014-2016-0