Ravi Agrawal

About

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy, a global affairs magazine and website. FP was founded in 1970 by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, a one-time hawk, and his close friend Warren Demian Manshel, a dove. The mission was to question groupthink and to give a voice to alternative views about American foreign policy. Huntington hoped it would be “serious but not scholarly, lively but not glib.” Today, FP continues to be serious and lively, but also global and diverse. We have weekly newsletters on China, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America; the magazine covers traditional foreign-policy issues but also economics, technology, and energy. And we have several podcasts (iSpy, Ones and Tooze, Global Reboot); in-person events; and a live journalism platform, FP Live. Before joining FP in 2018, I had a long career as a producer and correspondent at CNN, with stints based in London, New York, and New Delhi. I ended my time at CNN as South Asia bureau chief, reporting on eight countries that comprise a quarter of the world's population. In 2018, I published "India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy," a book that examined the rise of modern India through the dizzying spread of the internet. A review in the FT described the book as "hard to put down", and it was picked by the Wall Street Journal as among its five best books on India today. I live in New York City. I am a frequent commentator on NPR, the BBC, CNN, and MSNBC, and have moderated or spoken at events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Munich Security Conference, the Paris Peace Forum, Brussels Forum, the Doha Forum, the IMF/World Bank meetings, the Jaipur Literary Festival, and more. I'm a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the South Asian Journalists Association, and the Asia Society's Asia21 young leaders network.