Bio
Maya Mirchandani is Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs Editor and a Senior Anchor at NDTV. In a career spanning two decades she has reported on a range of issues-from environment to crime, from national politics to human rights and conflict to her real forte, world affairs. She returned to India in 2007 after 4 years in the USA as NDTV’s correspondent based in New York. She has an academic background mix of History, Mass Communications and International Relations from Delhi University, Sofia Polytechnic and the London School of Economics, respectively. She has bagged many awards, including most recently the RamnathGoenka award for Excellence in Journalism. (for reporting on Politics and Government in 2010, and for reporting from the North East in 2012), the Exchange for Media award for best International News Reporting (Broadcast) in 2010, and earlier awards and commendations for her work on children affected by conflict in Kashmir, as well as a best documentary commendation for a special on the 20th anniversary of the Air India Kanishka bombing.