Mobashar Jawed Akbar

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World

Mobashar Jawed (M.J.) Akbar is a nonresident senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, and a leading Indian journalist and author. He is founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, India’s first global newspaper, as well as the Deccan Chronicle, and has launched and edited several important publications in India including Illustrated Weekly of India and The Telegraph. | View Full Bio

Experience

Current Positions

  • Editor-in-Chief, The Sunday Guardian
    Editorial Director, India Today (Living Media)
    Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Deccan Chronicle
    Editor-in-Chief and Founder, The Asian Age

Past Positions

  • Founder, Covert (Political Magazine)
    Editor and Founder, The Telegraph
    Editor, The Sunday (Ananda Bazar Patrika Group)
    Editor, Onlooker (The Free Press Journal Group)
    Sub-Editor and Feature Writer, The Illustrated Weekly of India

Education

  • B.A., Presidency College, Calcutta, 1970

Language Fluency

  • English

Contact

Email Mobashar Jawed Akbar

202.797.4396 — Gail Chalef, Director of Communications, Foreign Policy

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

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