Ramesh Chandran
Executive Director
India-US Forum of Parliamentarians

Federation House
1, Tansen Marg
New Delhi-110 001.
Phone: 91-11-23316557/23738760-70 Extn : 419/417
Fax : 91-11-23320714/23721504
E-mail: rchandran@iufp.com

Mr. Chandran was the former Foreign Editor of The Times of India. Between 1995 and 2001, he was the newspaper's North American and United Nations correspondent, based in Washington DC. He has traveled and reported extensively from all over the United States, including covering the US Presidential Elections of 1996 and 2000. He also contributed a free wheeling column to The Sunday Times titled Letter from America.

Mr. Chandran covered the Gulf War in its entirety from both Baghdad as well as Amman. He has written extensively on the scourge of terrorism and travelled widely through Afghanistan in 1992. He also reported from all across the former Soviet Union writing on the unravelling of the erstwhile Superpower as well as on the emerging Baltic States and Central Asia. Between 1990 and 1995 he visited and reported from all across the Middle East and the Gulf States including Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Iran, besides writing on the Aegean conflict from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.

Mr. Chandran was based in Europe for 11 years, between 1979 and 1990 (in Paris and London) and has contributed extensively to European, American and Indian journals besides appearing on television talk shows. He has interviewed numerous Heads of State and Government of different countries. He has served on the Jury of "The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism" (ICIJ) based in Washington DC to scrutinize the award for the top International Investigative Media Story. He is currently the Executive Director of the India-US Forum of Parliamentarians (IUFP).