Meenakshi Ahamed(2022)
Meenakshi Ahamed has had a varied career as a journalist, and prior to that, as a development consultant. She has worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as well as for the Ashoka Society. In 1989, she moved to London and became the foreign correspondent for NDTV. Among the leaders she interviewed were Nelson Mandela, John Major, and Bill Clinton during his presidential campaign. She covered the race riots in London and reported on the rise of Indian entrepreneurs in the US in the mid-nineties. After returning to the US in 1996, she worked as a freelance journalist. Her op-eds and articles have been published in Asian Age, Seminar, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She has served on the board of Doctors Without Borders, The Turquoise Mountain Foundation, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases. She divides her time between the US and India.
