Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan is a Washington DC-based columnist for the Boston Globe, writing about foreign policy and politics, and the Newmark Chair for Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute. She is a sometime panelist on Washington Week on PBS. Her Washington Week profile notes^[1] that "She has covered presidential campaigns and interviewed leaders in the U.S. and around the world, reporting from 80 countries on six continents. She has traveled with the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Mitt Romney and traveled regularly with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry for Bloomberg News, and interviewed Clinton more than a dozen times for Bloomberg TV, Radio and Businessweek."

She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Newton, Massachusetts, she now resides in Washington DC.

Education

• Harvard University, Bachelor's degree, History of Art and Architecture, magna cum laude
• Harvard University, Nieman journalism fellowship, 2003
• University of Oxford, Rotary Scholar. Graduate Studies, Latin American Studies

Career

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan was a National Merit Scholar and a Radcliffe National Scholar at Harvard University, where she was a magna cum laude graduate in the History of Art and Architecture. She attended University of Oxford as a Rotary Scholar, and did graduate studies there in Latin American studies. In 2003, she was awarded a Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard University.

References

External links

• LinkedIn profile for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan - shows chronology of career
• Bloomberg articles by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
• Washington Week profile for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
• Facebook page for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, where she posts articles.
• Poynter posts by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan