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

The College Preparatory School The College Preparatory School (CPS or College Prep) is a four-year private high school in Oakland, California. The school's motto is ''Mens Conscia Recti'', a Latin phrase adapted from Virgil's ''Aeneid'' that means "a mind aware of what is r ...

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

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, 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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'', 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 The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...

, global terrorism, the hunt for

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, and the ongoing

Israeli-Palestinian conflict Israelis ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵלִים‎, translit=Yīśrāʾēlīm; ar, الإسرائيليين, translit=al-ʾIsrāʾīliyyin) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jew ...

."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)