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Ranjana Kaushal is an Indian business journalist, formerly assistant editor of Outlook Business, one of the country's top-selling business magazines. She is a fellow of the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation.

Early life and education
Kaushal was born in Shimla, capital of Himachal_Pradesh state, to Brahmin Hindu parents. She attended the city's Loreto Convent School and learned the Hindi, English and Punjabi languages. She graduated in economics from Panjab University in Chandigarh, Punjab, from where she went on to gained a masters in mass communication. She subsequently earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Having been awarded a fellowship from The Economist magazine in London on behalf of the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation, she later studied for a masters in financial journalism from City University London.

Career
Kaushal's career in India specialised in covering the IT, pharmaceutical, real estate and banking sectors. She joined the Financial Express, based in Chandigarh, in 2002 as senior correspondent. In September 2005 she moved to the Outlook group to join the team launching Outlook Business.

Two years later, she was recruited as special correspondent for Mail Today, a newspaper being launched as a joint venture between the India Today Group and the British Daily Mail.

Kaushal returned to Outlook Business in April 2010 to take on the role of assistant editor, anchoring many cover stories for the magazine. Her notable work at Outlook included an analysis of the prospects for Spice Communications' initial public offering, a cover feature on Vodafone's takeover battle for Indian telecom operator Hutchison Essar , and her story on the £10.7 billion sale of Zain's African telecom operation to India's Bharti Airtel.

She moved to London, England, in October 2010, where she joined the Financial Times as a researcher, writer and contributing editor. Her work at the FT included a supplement on Indian infrastructure for FDi magazine, an analysis of India's prospects for maintaining inward investment and a feature on Danish wind energy company Vestas.

From 2011 Kaushal has specialized in the energy sector, initially writing for Argus Media, then joining news and information provider Energy Intelligence in July 2011 to cover liquefied natural gas and other gas markets. She calculates weekly spot LNG market prices that are used as a benchmark for traders in that sector.