Ravindra Kumar

Ravindra Kumar (born 1960) is editor and managing director of The Statesman, one of India's best-known and oldest newspapers. He writes on Indian politics and on South-Asian and South-east Asian affairs.

Early life

Born in New Delhi, India on 24 July 1960, he was a director of United News of India, a leading Indian news agency, from 1992 to 2008, and twice its chairman. He was the chairman of Media Research Users' Council for 2012-13 and president of the Indian Newspaper Society in its platinum jubilee year, 2013-14. During this period he wrote a book, "Threescore and Fifteen - The story of the Indian Newspaper Society". The first copy of the book was presented to the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at a function to mark the platinum jubilee. A founding member of the executive board of Asia News Network, a grouping of 22 Asian newspapers, he was twice its chairman.

Positions

• Member, Executive Committee (and past president), Indian Newspaper Society
• Founding member (and past Chairman), Asia News Network
• Member, Board of Governors (and past chairman), Media Research Users' Council
• Member, Council of Management, All India Management Association
• Member, Executive Board, Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism

Awards

• Durga-Ratan Award for Investigative Journalism, 1986