ACJ Programme
Virtual Walkthrough

Faculty

Khushboo Narayan

Khushboo Narayan

Dean

Khushboo spent 17 years working with CNBC-TV18, Mint and The Indian Express, where she extensively reported on corporate crime and was part of global investigative journalism projects. She is a two-time Ramnath Goenka Award winner.

Cherian Thomas

Cherian Thomas

Training editor, Bloomberg News

Where he has worked since 2000. At Bloomberg, he has covered stocks in Mumbai, economy and government in New Delhi and edited Asia economy stories. Before Bloomberg, Cherian was a reporter at Business Standard for about six years.

Bridget Leena

Preeti Mehra

Core Faculty

Preeti Mehra is a journalist with over 40 years experience. She has worked out of Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai for leading publications including The Hindu Business LIne, The Hindu and Times of India. Her reportage has straddled corporate coverage, clean technology, environment, livelihood and social justice issues. She has also anchored feature sections and special pages in the publications she has worked for.

Jarshad N. K.

Jarshad N. K.

Editor, Yourstory

With a 2 decade-long career with the best including Reuters, Forbes India, The Hindu BusinessLine, and The Economic Times, Jarshad NK teaches writing.

C. P. Chandrasekhar

C. P. Chandrasekhar

Economist

Emeritus Professor, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University.Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York Senior Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

Nishat Ahmed

Nishat Ahmed

Television Production, Field and Studio; News and Current Affairs; Documentary Features

Packing 4 decades of varied broadcast expertise and experience into a punchy education and training regime of 24X7 News.

Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh

Economist, Former Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and newspaper columnist

Jayati is an Indian development economist. She teaches economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Jayati, has authored and edited 20 books and is a columnist.

NS Ramnath

NS Ramnath

Senior journalist and co-author

The Aadhaar Effect

Sriram Srinivasan

Sriram Srinivasan

Former Digital Editor

The Hindu Group

Swapna Sundar

Swapna Sundar

Lawyer and Senior Partner

PVS Giridhar Associates, Law Chamber

Venky Vembu

Venky Vembu

Executive Editor, Shaastra, IIT Madras

Over a 39-year journalism career, Venky has served as writer and editor in several genres of media products, from daily newspapers to fortnightly/monthly magazines to pure digital plays. The expanse of his career canvas takes in general news publications, business dailies and personal finance magazines, a lifestyle travel magazine, and a science and technology magazine. He currently has 24 cats.

Prof B Bhagwan Das

Prof B Bhagwan Das

Former HOD (Economics), Loyola College

He has taught Economics and Finance and guided research at Loyola College, Chennai, for nearly three decades. He also taught at Stansfield College, Singapore, for a year. Bhagwan teaches micro economics at ACJ.

Pranchi Bansal

Pranchi Bansal

Assistant Professor

OP Jindal Global University, Haryana

Varsha Bansal

Varsha Bansal

Executive Editor, Shaastra, IIT Madras

Varsha is an independent journalist, writer and editor based in Bengaluru. She writes at the intersection of Technology, AI and Humans. Her work has appeared in WIRED, TIME, Al Jazeera, Slate, Caravan, Economic Times, Mint and more. She was longlisted for International Journalist of the Year award by One World Media in 2023. She is a grantee and an inaugural AI Accountability fellow at the Pulitzer Center.

Core Faculty

V. Ravichandran

Chartered Accountant and Financial Consultant

V. Ravichandran is a Chartered Accountant and has been advising companies for 40 years on Corporate Finance including public offerings in India and abroad, inbound private equity and venture capital investments and mergers and acquisitions. Besides, he is interested in corporate, taxation and foreign exchange laws and taxation particularly in relation to cross border investment and trade. The companies he advises are involved in a variety of businesses such as sports and entertainment, infrastructure, information technology and consumer internet. He is a trustee in multiple non-profit foundations that work in areas of art, education and science. He has served as the CM’s representative on a state committee for health insurance as well as a public representative on Stock Exchange committees.

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Prachi Bansal

Assistant Professor at OP Jindal Global University, Haryana

Dr. Prachi Bansal is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. She teaches courses on data science and development economics. She has earlier worked as Agricultural Statistician with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Her research interests include agrarian issues, labour economics, food security, and data science.

Guest Lecturers

Core Faculty

Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan

Managing Director, Qyuki Media Digital

Core Faculty

Bill Faries

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Deepika Arun

Podcast Producer

Core Faculty

Dinesh Krishnan

Visual Editor, The Hindu

Core Faculty

Divya Patil

Corporate Finance Reporter

Core Faculty

Ed Johnson

Managing Editor for Interns

Core Faculty

Gopika Gopakumar

Senior Editor, Mint

Core Faculty

Jeanette Rodrigues

South Asia Managing Editor

Core Faculty

John Samuel Raja

Founder, How India Lives

Core Faculty

Kayezad Adajania

Assistant Executive Editor, Moneycontrol.com

Core Faculty

M Rajashekhar

Energy and Environment Journalist, Author of ‘Despite the State’

Core Faculty

Matthew Winkler

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Bloomberg News

Guest Lecturer

Kapathy G Lakshmi

Global Head, ethics & Business Integrity, Redington Ltd

Guest Lecturer

Mihir Dalal

Freelance journalist and author of Big Billion Startup – The Untold Flipkart Story

Guest Lecturer

Reto Gregori

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Mahima Jain

Climate Journalist

Guest Lecturer

Paul Addison

Managing Editor, Global training, Bloomberg News

Guest Lecturer

Anto Antony

Editor, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Kai Schultz

Editor at Bloomberg Asia Editing Hub

Guest Lecturer

Sankalp Phartiyal

India Tech Reporter

Guest Lecturer

Rupha Ramani

Sports Editor& Presenter, First Post

Guest Lecturer

Harsha Subramaniam

Head of Global Content Strategy, Meta

Guest Lecturer

Aesha Datta

Climate Journalist

Guest Lecturer

Eric Wishart

AFP Standards & Ethics Editor

Guest Lecturer

Thomas K Thomas

Managing Editor, Hindu BusinessLine

Guest Lecturer

Uptal Bhaskar

Associate Editor, Mint

Guest Lecturer

Anand Krishnamoorthy

Newsdesk Editor, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Parvatha Vardhini

Senior Journalist

Guest Lecturer

Yashika Kedia

Programme Associate, PRS Legislative Research

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Lekha Chakraborty

Professor and Chair, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Guest Lecturer

Chandra Bhan Prasad

Journalist, Dalit Activist and Writer

Guest Lecturer

Sundeep Khanna

Freelance Columnist and author of Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions

Guest Lecturer

Rene Vollgraaf

Head of Breaking News team in Africa

Guest Lecturer

Kirti Prasanna Mishra

Co-Founder and Director, Ecociate Consultants

Guest Lecturer

TT Ram Mohan

Prof. II-A

Guest Lecturer

Isabella Stager

Editor, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Joji Thomas Philip

Editor-in-Chief, Deal Street Asia

Guest Lecturer

Devadas Rajaram

Digital Journalism Educator, Alliance University, Bengaluru

Guest Lecturer

Jeffrey Hernandes

Bloomberg Data

Core Faculty

Parvatha Vardhini C

Senior Journalist

Core Faculty

Prince Thomas

Managing Editor, TMC

Core Faculty

Prof Rohit Azadd

Assistant Professor, JNU

Core Faculty

Santosh Nair

Executive Editor, Special Projects moneycontrol.com

Core Faculty

Shin Pei

Editor, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News

Core Faculty

Tom Redmond

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Vignesh Radhakrishan

Principal Correspondent (data) of The Hindu

Guest Lecturer

Koreel Lahiri

Investment Director, Asia, Media Development Investment Fund

Guest Lecturer

Justice K. Chandru

Former Judge of Madras High Court

Guest Lecturer

Yogendra Yadav

Member Swaraj India, Swaraj Abhiyan, Jai Kisan Andolan

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Thomas Isaac

Former Finance Minister, Kerala

Guest Lecturer

Yogita Limaye

Correspondent, BBC South Asia & Afghanistan

Guest Lecturer

Dhanya Rajendran

Editor in Chief, The News Minute

Guest Lecturer

Kalpana Kannabiran

Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

Guest Lecturer

M Rajshekhar

Journalist & Author

Guest Lecturer

Subhadip Sircar

India Bonds/ FX Reporter

Guest Lecturer

Jeanette Rodrigues

South Asia Managing Editor

Guest Lecturer

Parry Ravindranathan

CEO and Co-Founder, Converj

Guest Lecturer

Ankur Paliwal

Journalist covering science, inequity, and queer people queer people Senior Producer, CNN as Equals

Guest Lecturer

Walid Al-Saqaf

Associate professor, Doha Institute and Sodertorn University in Sweden, for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Guest Lecturer

Dipankar Banerjee

Chairman, CSTEP

Guest Lecturer

V. Srinivasan Ramani

Deputy National Editor, The Hindu

Guest Lecturer

Shaleen D’Souza

Business Standard

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Rathin Roy

Economist and Former Member Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Meena Menon

Environment Journalist, and Visiting Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute Fellow

Guest Lecturer

Siraj Hussain

Advisor Food Processing, FICCI and Former Secretary Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Himanshu

Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Guest Lecturer

Aarti Khosla

Founder & Director, Climate Trends

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Deepali Sinha Khetriwal

Founder, Ecowork

Guest Lecturer

PR Sanjai

Reporter, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Jeyaranjan

Vice-Chairman, State Planning Commission, TN on State Finances

Guest Lecturer

Ravi Krishnan

Editor-in-Chief, Mint

Guest Lecturer

Ashwini Phadnis

Deputy Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine

Guest Lecturer

Andy Mukherjee

Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Clara Ferreira Marques

Asia Commodities Managing Editor

Guest Lecturer

Derek Wallbank

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

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Amiti Sen

Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine

Guest Lecturer

Binoy Prabhakar

Chief Content Officer, Hindustan Times

Parimala S Rao

Parimala S Rao

Senior Journalist