User:Shlokan

I am a Master's in Public Policy degree candidate at the Kennedy School (Class of 2013). I was the News Editor for The Citizen and I am the Managing Editor for the Kennedy School Review. I was also the Director for Operations for the 2012 Social Enterprise Conference.

I have spent the last 5 years working as a journalist in London and Mumbai. Most recently, I managed the Studies Programme for Gateway House, a new foreign policy think tank in Mumbai, modelled on and mentored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. http://www.gatewayhouse.in/ Prior to this, I was Principal Correspondent with Forbes magazine in India, specializing in Strategic Affairs, Financial Inclusion and Business and Law. A graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, I have worked as a broadcast journalist with the BBC in London and as a national news Anchor and Correspondent with New Delhi Television (NDTV) in Mumbai. I was a speechwriter at the House of Lords and have also worked on promoting press freedom worldwide for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York. In 2010, I was nominated for India's highest awards in journalism, the Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism for my reportage on microfinance in India.