Ravi Agrawal
| Ravi Agrawal | |
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Ravi Agrawal reporting from Kolkata, April 2016
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| Born |
October 16, 1982 London, England |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | CNN |
| Title | New Delhi Bureau Chief |
Ravi Agrawal (born October 16, 1982) is a journalist and television producer. He has worked for the U.S. news channel CNN for more than a decade in roles across London, New York, and New Delhi.
Agrawal is currently the network's New Delhi Bureau Chief.
Agrawal is based in New Delhi, from where he manages CNN's multi-platform news gathering in India.
He reports and writes columns for CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, and appears on-air on CNN International to analyze stories, trends, and developments in South Asia. He has covered a breadth of stories from the region, reporting on economics, the environment, foreign policy, caste and gender issues, and breaking news stories like the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
He has produced from New Delhi high profile interviews with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Barack Obama.
Agrawal has programmed and hosted two editions of the CNN Asia Business Forum, a special thought leadership event the network hosted in Mumbai in 2016, and in Bengaluru in 2017.
Agrawal occasionally contributes to regional newspapers like the South China Morning Post and Singapore's Business Times.
From 2011 to 2014, Agrawal lived and worked in New York City. He was the Senior Producer of CNN's Sunday world affairs program Fareed Zakaria GPS. Agrawal was part of the program's 2012 Peabody Award winning team, as well as its three Emmy nominated programs across 2012 and 2013.
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 program Connect the World and served as its senior producer.
Agrawal 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.
Agrawal is a Young Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum and has served on the group's Global Agenda Council on India.
In 2016, Agrawal was named an Asia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in New York.
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