Pramit is the Senior Editor of The Hindustan Times and was recently the 2006-7 Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society New York.
He was previously the paper’s foreign editor and, earlier, an editorial writer for The Telegraph and The Statesman of Calcutta. He specializes in India’s international security and economic policy.
Over the past several years he has been a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland – College Park; media fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; South Asia fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre in Washington DC, and a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s South Asia department.
He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Liberty Institute of New Delhi, the International Institute for Strategic Studies UK, the Asia Society International Council and the Aspen Institute Italia.
Last year, he was made an Indian delegate to the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue. He also serves as a Senior Associate for the Rhodium Group.
Pramit has written widely on India’s foreign and international economic policies. He is a regular talking head on Asian television and radio stations. This year he has spoken at the Aspen Institute World Economy Conference, the Centre of Independent Studies annual consilium in Australia and at Singapore’s Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. He has a BA in history from Cornell University and was born in Calcutta in 1964.
