Romesh Ratnesar

Romesh Ratnesar (born June 11, 1975) is an American journalist and author. He is the Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and former Deputy Managing Editor at TIME magazine, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Early life

As a child, Ratnesar attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Stanford University, and worked for the Stanford Daily, writing a biweekly column. He later received a master's degree in history from Stanford in 1997.

Journalist

Immediately after graduating, Ratnesar was hired as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic, and occasionally contributed to Slate, Lingua Franca, The Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, and The Washington Post. He was named World Editor in February 2004, the youngest person in the magazine's history to hold that position. He was eventually promoted to Deputy Managing Editor, the number two position in the magazine. Ratnesar won the 2004 National Headliner Award for Magazine Reporting for TIME'''s 2003 "Person of the Year" story on the American soldier. He also won New York Press Club awards for feature writing in 2004 and spot news reporting in 2003.