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

Cherian Thomas is a training editor at 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

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

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

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

NS Ramnath

NS Ramnath

Senior journalist and co-author of The Aadhaar Effect

Sriram Srinivasan

Sriram Srinivasan

Former Digital Editor, The Hindu Group

Swapna Sundar

Swapna Sundar

Lawyer and Senior Partner in PVS Giridhar Associates, Law Chamber

V Ravichandran

V Ravichandran

Chartered Accountant and Financial Consultant

Venky Vembu

Venky Vembu

Executive Editor, Shaastra, IIT Madras

Parimala S Rao

Parimala S Rao

Parimala's 30-year career at The Hindu Group included senior editorial roles in BusinessLine and BusinessLine on Campus, a digital resource for B-schoolers. At ACJ, Parimala teaches writing and editing.

Prof B Bhagwan Das

Prof B Bhagwan Das

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 at OP Jindal Global University, Haryana

Varsha Bansal

Varsha Bansal

Independent journalist, grantee and AI Accountability fellow at the Pulitzer Center.

Guest Lecturers

Core Faculty

Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan

Managing Director, Qyuki Media Digital

Core Faculty

Bill Faries

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

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Deepika Arun

Podcast Producer

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Dinesh Krishnan

Visual Editor, The Hindu

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Divya Patil

Corporate Finance Reporter

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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

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Kapathy G Lakshmi

Global Head, ethics & Business Integrity, Redington Ltd

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Mihir Dalal

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

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Reto Gregori

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg

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Mahima Jain

Climate Journalist

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Paul Addison

Managing Editor, Global training, Bloomberg News

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Anto Antony

Editor, Bloomberg

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Kai Schultz

Editor at Bloomberg Asia Editing Hub

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Sankalp Phartiyal

India Tech Reporter

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Rupha Ramani

Sports Editor& Presenter, First Post

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Harsha Subramaniam

Head of Global Content Strategy, Meta

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Aesha Datta

Climate Journalist

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Eric Wishart

AFP Standards & Ethics Editor

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Thomas K Thomas

Managing Editor, Hindu BusinessLine

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Uptal Bhaskar

Associate Editor, Mint

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Anand Krishnamoorthy

Newsdesk Editor, Bloomberg

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Parvatha Vardhini

Senior Journalist

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Yashika Kedia

Programme Associate, PRS Legislative Research

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Dr. Lekha Chakraborty

Professor and Chair, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

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Chandra Bhan Prasad

Journalist, Dalit Activist and Writer

Core Faculty

Parvatha Vardhini C

Senior Journalist

Core Faculty

Prince Thomas

Managing Editor, TMC

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Prof Rohit Azadd

Assistant Professor, JNU

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Santosh Nair

Executive Editor, Special Projects moneycontrol.com

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Shin Pei

Editor, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News

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Tom Redmond

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

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Vignesh Radhakrishan

Principal Correspondent (data) of The Hindu

Guest Lecturer

Koreel Lahiri

Investment Director, Asia, Media Development Investment Fund

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Justice K. Chandru

Former Judge of Madras High Court

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Yogendra Yadav

Member Swaraj India, Swaraj Abhiyan, Jai Kisan Andolan

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Dr. Thomas Isaac

Former Finance Minister, Kerala

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Yogita Limaye

Correspondent, BBC South Asia & Afghanistan

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Dhanya Rajendran

Editor in Chief, The News Minute

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Kalpana Kannabiran

Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

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M Rajshekhar

Journalist & Author

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Dr. Prachi Bansal

Asst Prof. Jindal School of Gov and Public Policy

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Subhadip Sircar

India Bonds/ FX Reporter

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Jeanette Rodrigues

South Asia Managing Editor

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Parry Ravindranathan

CEO and Co-Founder, Converj

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Ankur Paliwal

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

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Walid Al-Saqaf

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

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Dipankar Banerjee

Chairman, CSTEP

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V. Srinivasan Ramani

Deputy National Editor, The Hindu

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Shaleen D’Souza

Business Standard

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Dr. Rathin Roy

Economist and Former Member Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council

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Dr. Meena Menon

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

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Siraj Hussain

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

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Dr. Himanshu

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

Guest Lecturer

Aarti Khosla

Founder & Director, Climate Trends

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Dr. Deepali Sinha Khetriwal

Founder, Ecowork