16 Facts About Ravi Agrawal

Ravi Agrawal was born on 16 October 1982 and is a journalist, television producer and author of the book India Connected.

Ravi Agrawal is currently the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine.

Previously, Agrawal worked for the US news channel CNN for 11 years, spanning full-time roles on three continents.

Ravi Agrawal was named Editor in Chief in November 2020.

Ravi Agrawal is a frequent commentator on world affairs on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and on NPR.

From 2014 to 2017, Ravi Agrawal managed CNN's multi-platform news gathering in South Asia.

Ravi Agrawal covered a breadth of stories from the region, including economics, foreign policy, and breaking news stories.

Ravi Agrawal reported for CNN International's award-winning Freedom Project series, including a report on child slaves in rural Uttar Pradesh.

From 2011 to 2014, Ravi Agrawal lived and worked in New York City.

Ravi Agrawal was the senior producer of CNN's Sunday world affairs program Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Ravi Agrawal was part of the program's 2012 Peabody Award-winning team, as well as its three Emmy nominated programs across 2012 and 2013.

Ravi Agrawal began his career in TV journalism at CNN International in 2006, where he worked across the network's news and business programs.

Ravi Agrawal's India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Biggest Democracy released in September 2018 in India, November 2018 in the United States, and January 2019 in the United Kingdom.

Ravi Agrawal was born in London, England and raised in Calcutta, India.

Until 2016, Ravi Agrawal was a Young Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum, and has served a two-year term on the group's Global Agenda Council on India.

In 2016, Ravi Agrawal was named an Asia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in New York.