Anjan Sundaram

Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter, whose war correspondence has won a Frontline Club Award and a Reuters prize. He has spent a decade writing about 21st-century dictatorships, forgotten wars and discrimination around the world -- from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India -- and is now focusing his pen on a different conflict: the global fight against climate change.

Sundaram is the author of numerous well-received books including: "Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship," which was an Amazon Book of the Year, a Moore Prize and Ingabire Prize winner, and a PEN/America nonfiction prize finalist; "Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo," which was named a Royal African Society Book of the Year and a BBC Book of the Week; and his most recent work, "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime," which TIME magazine named a Best Book of April 2023. His books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour and Fareed Zakaria on CNN, by Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" and on BBC Radio 4’s "Book of the Week" and "Start the Week."

Sundaram has reported from Central Africa for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, Granta, Foreign Policy, Politico and the Associated Press. In addition, he hosted a four-part television series that combined his expertise in mathematics and journalism called "Coded World," which explores how algorithms and artificial intelligence are changing humans, and a four-part series called "Deciphering India with Anjan Sundaram," which explored the contentious rise of nationalism in India.

A TED fellow, Sundaram graduated from Yale University and holds a PhD in Journalism and Literature from the University of East Anglia.