Romesh Ratnesar (born June 11, 1975) is an American

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and

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. He is the Deputy Editor of

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"Romesh Ratnesar"
'Bloomberg Businessweek'', no date. and former Deputy Managing Editor at ''

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'' magazine, and is a member of the

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Early life

As a child, Ratnesar attended

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."Interview with Romesh Ratnesar"
''GoodReads'', January 2010. He enrolled as an undergraduate at

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, and worked for the

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, writing a biweekly column."So What Do You Do, Romesh Ratnesar?"
'MediaBistro.com'', 18 November 2003. He later received a

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in history from Stanford in 1997."Biographies – Senior Editorial Staff – Romesh Ratnesar"
'TIME'', January 2004.

Journalist

Immediately after graduating, Ratnesar was hired as a reporter-researcher at ''

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'', and occasionally contributed to ''

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'', '' Mother Jones'', and ''

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''. Ratnesar joined ''TIME'' in 1997 as a staff writer. He wrote more than 20 cover stories for the United States and international editions of the magazine, largely focusing on the 2003 Iraq War, global terrorism, the hunt for

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, and the ongoing

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."Guests: Romesh Ratnesar"
'Charlie Rose'', no date. 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."Are We Engaged in World War III?"
''French-American Foundation'', no date. Ratnesar won the 2004 ''National Headliner Award for Magazine Reporting'' for ''TIMEs 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. In 2009, he published his first book, ''Tear Down This Wall: A City, A President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War'' (Simon & Schuster). He left his managing position at ''TIME'' in 2010 to join the

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as its Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow. He still works as a contributing Editor-at-Large at ''TIME''."About"
'Romesh Ratnesar'', no date.
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Bibliography

* '' Tear Down This Wall : A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War'', Romesh Ratnesar, (Simon & Schuster; 2009)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ratnesar, Romesh American columnists American essayists American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers American magazine editors Living people People from Hayward, California Stanford University alumni Time (magazine) people American people of Sri Lankan descent 1975 births American male essayists Journalists from California New America (organization)