PARTICIPANTES PROGRAMA LÍDERES INDIOS 2013 INDIAN LEADERS PROGRAMME 2013 PARTICIPANTS FUNDACIÓN SPAIN CONSEJO INDIA ESPAÑA COUNCIL INDIA FOUNDATION PARTICIPANTES / PARTICIPANTS that started Tehelka.com. When and in 2013, the Italian Ernest Editor and Lead Anchor at ET NOW Tehelka was forced to close Hemingway Lignano Sabbiadoro & NDTV Profi t. Shaili anchored down by the government after Award for journalism across print, the 9 pm primetime slots and its seminal story on defence internet and broadcast media. She conducted exclusive interviews of corruption, she was one of four lives in Delhi and has two sons. people like Warren Bu ett, George people who stayed on to fi ght and Soros, Deutsche Bank CEO Anshu articulate Tehelka’s vision and Jain, PepsiCo’s boss Indra Nooyi, relaunch it as a national weekly. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and more. Shoma has written extensively on several areas of confl ict In 2012, Shaili received India’s in India – people vs State; the principal journalism honour The Ms. Shoma Chaudhury Maoist insurgency, the Muslim Ramnath Goenka Award for best in Managing Editor question, and issues of capitalist business journalism. She also won TEHELKA development and land grab. the News Television Award for She has won several awards, the Best Reporter in India in 2007 Shoma Chaudhury is Managing including the Ramnath Goenka and later in 2008, her business- Editor, Tehelka, a weekly Award and the Chameli Devi Ms. Shaili Chopra golf show Business on Course, newsmagazine widely respected Award for the most outstanding Senior Editor won the Best Show Award. She for its investigative and public woman journalist in 2009. In 2011, TEHELKA also won the Media Foundation interest journalism. Earlier she Newsweek (USA) picked her as Best Business Anchor Award for had worked with The Pioneer, one of 150 power women who Shaili Chopra is one of India’s top 2010 and in the same year the India Today, and Outlook. In 2000, “shake the world”. In May 2012, television editor-presenters. She Federation of Indian Industry gave she left Outlook to join Tarun she won the Mumbai Press Club is currently the Business Editor her the Young Women’s Achiever Tejpal, and was among the team Award for best political reporting for Tehelka and was earlier Senior Award for contribution to media. Shaili Chopra has been at the witty & intelligent to follow on Shweta has received several Chevening Scholarship for Young forefront global events like the Twitter by CNN-IBN. awards for journalism excellence Print Journalists, she studied at G-20 of 2008 in Washington, Prime including two by Presidents of the University of Westminster Minister’s visit for bilateral talks in Golf and reading are her hobbies. India – the prestigious Ramnath and worked briefl y at The Sunday Germany, World Economic Forum She also has an entrepreneurial Goenka Award for Excellence in Times, London in 2003. in Davos, Brettonwoods II, India venture in golf news called http:// Broadcast Journalism by President Economic Summit and the World www.Golfi ngINDIAN.com Pratibha Patil in June 2010 and She was invited by the United Retail Congress. the Business Standard- Seema States Government as part of the Nazareth Award for Young Print International Visitor Leadership Shaili’s interviews include IMF Journalists under 25 by President Program (IVLP) for Business Chief Christine Lagarde, Vikram KR Narayanan in February 2001. Journalists in 2007. Pandit of Citibank, Nobel Laureate Dr Amartya Sen, Doomsday Other recent awards include the She has interviewed several global economist Nouriel Roubini, GE’s Young Women Achievers Award bigwigs including Nobel Laureates Je Immelt, JPMorgan’s Jamie (April 2013) by FICCI Young Ladies Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, Dimon, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, Organisation, News Television Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Singer Peter Gabriel, Author Paulo Awards for Best Business News marketing guru Philip Kotler, Coehlo, Blackrock’s Larry Fink, Show (2012) and Best Business global CEOs like PepsiCo’s Indra Sir Evelyn Rothschild, Barclays’ Talk Show (2010), Business Nooyi, Virgin Group founder John Varley, Corporate Guru Dr Mrs. Shweta Kohli Communicator of the Year by Richard Branson, GE’s Je rey Ram Charan, Rothchild’s Lady Economic A airs Editor ABCI and Dr S Radhakrishnan Immelt, steel tycoon Lakshmi Lynn, LVMH’s Yves Carcelle, Ikea’s NDTV Award for Excellence in Electronic Mittal and Dell Inc Founder Anders Dahlvig, WEF’s Klaus Journalism 2011. Michael S Dell. Schwab, Indian Finance Minister Shweta Rajpal Kohli is an award- P Chidambaram, Anand Mahindra, winning business journalist and Shweta has attended specialized Kumar Mangalam Birla, Mukesh well known TV anchor. She has courses for fi nancial journalists Ambani, Rahul Bajaj, Sunil Mittal been in the media industry for at the Wharton Business School, and others. over 15 years and is currently the University of Pennsylvania and Economic A airs Editor, NDTV. INSEAD Business School in Shaili was ranked among the 30 2008. A recipient of the British wars and the upheaval that Hollinghurst, Vikram Seth, Anita LONDON-BASED followed and has interviewed Brookner, Norman Rush, Zhu Wen, INTERNATIONAL NEWS several political leaders including Edmund de Waal, Chris Abani, AGENCY Presidents Mitterrand, Chirac Esther Freud, Dubravka Ugresic, and Sarkozy, Prime Ministers Anita Nair, Indra Sinha Manil Suri (* Special guest for two days) Prodi and Manmohan Singh, among others. Ms Naravane also amongst others. She has been teaches a Masters’ course at the Ashis Ray presently heads on the sta of The Times of School of Journalism, Institut RayMedia, which is engaged in India (European Correspondent d’études politiques (SciencesPo), creating a niche international 1987-1995) and Radio France Paris. Her articles and other news and views agency out of Ms. Vaiju Naravane Internationale (journaliste details may be accessed on London, scheduled to be launched Senior Europe bilingue 1983-1987). www.google.com, www.google. in the summer. Correspondent (Paris) fr, www.thehindu.com and www. THE HINDU A multi-media journalist thehinduonnet.com Ray is an award-winning and senior combining print, radio and foreign correspondent, who has Educated in India and the USA, television she has served as uninterruptedly served in this Ms Vaiju Naravane is The Hindu’s Director, Information and Public capacity for 36 years. Senior Europe Correspondent. Relations for the United Nations’ Based in Paris she covers Geneva-based World Health He has the distinction of being France, Italy, Spain, Germany Organisation. A frequent guest on the only person to have worked as and several central and east radio and television talk shows, a presenter or correspondent or European countries for India’s (Kiosque -TV5, C dans l’air- both for BBC, CNN and ITN, not to most respected English-language France 5, JT – iTELE, Arte, France mention as an analyst on ABC and daily (circulation 1.3 million) and 2, LCP, LCI, BBC World Service SKY. other publications of The Hindu Radio (English, Hindi & Urdu), Ms Group. In a career spanning 30 Naravane is also Editor (foreign At BBC, he presented “South Asia years, Ms Naravane has been fi ction) at the French publishers Mr. Ashis Ray (*) Survey” on its World Service, in witness to many tumultuous Albin Michel where she edits Director addition to being a commentator events in Europe such as the fall several notable international PROJECT “RAYMEDIA” on South Asian a airs. of the Berlin Wall, the Balkan writers including Alan - A SOON TO BE LAUNCHED At CNN, he was this network’s the Kolkata TV, the Hardnews neighbourhood” in February, 2010. founding South Asia bureau magazine and the Indo-Asian I am 54 years old and live in Delhi chief in Delhi and principal News Service in senior positions with my wife and daughter. correspondent and then editor- that include, diplomatic editor, at-large in London, responsible for executive editor and editor of international a airs. strategic and foreign a airs. I am currently working as the Foreign He has lately been the Europe Editor for the Outlook, one of correspondent of The Times India’s premier English weekly. of India - the world’s largest circulated English language daily. This apart, I have also been a He has covered general elections Mr. Pranay Sharma commentator for many of the in Britain, Germany and France Foreign Editor other national newspapers and since the late 1970s. OUTLOOK INDIA journals of India that include, the New Indian Express, the Over the years, he has broken I am a commentator and writer Deccan Herald, the Daily News Mr. Saurabh Shukla many a world exclusive story on foreign policy and current and Analysis, Dainik Hindustan, Editor Foreign A airs as well as accurately forecast a airs. I have been a journalist Dainik Bhaskar, Sifynews and the MAIL TODAY, INDIA outcomes of events in his for nearly three decades. During Seminar. TODAY GROUP commentaries. In 1992, he my professional life I have worked became the fi rst journalist to do a both for the print as well as the I have traveled widely, many times Saurabh Shukla is an award “live shot” out of Afghanistan for audio visual media. as part of Indian prime ministerial winning investigative journalist CNN. and other senior leader’s currently editor Foreign a airs with A Master’s degree holder in delegation and have also been mail today, india today group. He Ray has lectured or chaired Comparative Literature from invited by governments of various has worked as editor with group’s seminars on international subjects Jadavpore University in Kolkata, countries for interaction on key tv channel headlines today, senior at Oxford University and the I started my career in journalism foreign policy issues. I was invited editor with India today magazine London School of Economics. with one of the leading English by the Yale University for a week and has worked with Hindustan dailies in the country, The long lecture tour and to present a times and the Indian express news Telegraph.