ACJ Programme
Virtual Walkthrough

Faculty

Khushboo Narayan

Khushboo Narayan

Dean

Khushboo spent 17 years working with CNBC-TV18, Mint and The Indian Express, where she extensively reported on corporate crime and was part of global investigative journalism projects. She is a two-time Ramnath Goenka Award winner.

Cherian Thomas

Cherian Thomas

Training editor, Bloomberg News

Where he has worked since 2000. At Bloomberg, he has covered stocks in Mumbai, economy and government in New Delhi and edited Asia economy stories. Before Bloomberg, Cherian was a reporter at Business Standard for about six years.

Bridget Leena

Preeti Mehra

Core Faculty

Preeti Mehra is a journalist with over 40 years experience. She has worked out of Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai for leading publications including The Hindu Business LIne, The Hindu and Times of India. Her reportage has straddled corporate coverage, clean technology, environment, livelihood and social justice issues. She has also anchored feature sections and special pages in the publications she has worked for.

Venky Vembu

Venky Vembu

Executive Editor, Shaastra, IIT Madras

Over a 39-year journalism career, Venky has served as writer and editor in several genres of media products, from daily newspapers to fortnightly/monthly magazines to pure digital plays. The expanse of his career canvas takes in general news publications, business dailies and personal finance magazines, a lifestyle travel magazine, and a science and technology magazine. He currently has 24 cats.

Jarshad N. K.

Jarshad N. K.

Editor, Yourstory

With a 2 decade-long career with the best including Reuters, Forbes India, The Hindu BusinessLine, and The Economic Times, Jarshad NK teaches writing.

C. P. Chandrasekhar

C. P. Chandrasekhar

Economist

Emeritus Professor, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University.Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York Senior Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

Nishat Ahmed

Nishat Ahmed

Television Production, Field and Studio; News and Current Affairs; Documentary Features

Packing 4 decades of varied broadcast expertise and experience into a punchy education and training regime of 24X7 News.

Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh

Economist

Jayati is an Indian development economist. She teaches economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Jayati, has authored and edited 20 books and is a columnist.

Prof B Bhagwan Das

Prof B Bhagwan Das

Former HOD (Economics), Loyola College

He has taught Economics and Finance and guided research at Loyola College, Chennai, for nearly three decades. He also taught at Stansfield College, Singapore, for a year. Bhagwan teaches micro economics at ACJ.

Core Faculty

Prof Rohit Azadd

Assistant Professor, JNU

Core Faculty

V. Ravichandran

Chartered Accountant and Financial Consultant

V. Ravichandran is a Chartered Accountant and has been advising companies for 40 years on Corporate Finance including public offerings in India and abroad, inbound private equity and venture capital investments and mergers and acquisitions. Besides, he is interested in corporate, taxation and foreign exchange laws and taxation particularly in relation to cross border investment and trade. The companies he advises are involved in a variety of businesses such as sports and entertainment, infrastructure, information technology and consumer internet. He is a trustee in multiple non-profit foundations that work in areas of art, education and science. He has served as the CM’s representative on a state committee for health insurance as well as a public representative on Stock Exchange committees.

Guest Lecturer

Dr. Prachi Bansal

Assistant Professor at OP Jindal Global University, Haryana

Dr. Prachi Bansal is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. She teaches courses on data science and development economics. She has earlier worked as Agricultural Statistician with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Her research interests include agrarian issues, labour economics, food security, and data science.

Guest Lecturer

TT Ram Mohan

Part-time member of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister 

Sriram Srinivasan

Sriram Srinivasan

Former Digital Editor

The Hindu Group

NS Ramnath

NS Ramnath

Senior journalist and co-author

The Aadhaar Effect

Swapna Sundar

Swapna Sundar

Lawyer and Senior Partner

PVS Giridhar Associates, Law Chamber

Guest Lecturers

Core Faculty

Sundar Sethuraman

Journalist, Business Standard

Core Faculty

Abhinav Ramnarayan

Corporate Finance Reporter, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Srinivasan Sivabalan

Emerging Markets Senior Reporter, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

PT Jyothi Datta

Journalist, The Hindu Business Line

Core Faculty

Dinesh Krishnan

Visual Editor, The Hindu

Core Faculty

Divya Patil

Reporter, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Jeanette Rodrigues

Managing Editor South Asia , Bloomberg

Core Faculty

John Samuel Raja

Founder, How India Lives

Guest Lecturer

Kapathy G Lakshmi

Global Head, ethics & Business Integrity, Redington Ltd

Guest Lecturer

Mihir Dalal

Freelance journalist and author of Big Billion Startup – The Untold Flipkart Story

Guest Lecturer

Mahima Jain

Climate Journalist

Guest Lecturer

Anto Antony

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Sankalp Phartiyal

Indian Tech Reporter, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Sundeep Khanna

Freelance Columnist and author of Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions

Core Faculty

Chanyaporn Chanjaroen

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Reed Stevenson

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

Core Faculty

Karthik Gunasekar

Managing Trustee, Aram Thinai on Reimagining Development

Core Faculty

Prince Thomas Mathew

Managing Editor, The Morning Context

Core Faculty

Vignesh Radhakrishan

Principal Correspondent (data) of The Hindu

Guest Lecturer

M Rajshekhar

Journalist & Author

Guest Lecturer

Subhadip Sircar

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

PR Sanjai

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Ashwini Phadnis

Deputy Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine

Guest Lecturer

Amiti Sen

Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine

Guest Lecturer

Isabella Stager

Senior Editor, Bloomberg

Guest Lecturer

Devadas Rajaram

Digital Journalism Educator, Alliance University, Bengaluru

Guest Lecturer

Rene Vollgraaf

Team Leader, Africa Speed, Bloomberg