Mr. Raghuvir Srinivasan
Raghuvir Srinivasan, Editor, businessline, is a chartered accountant and cost accountant with 30 years of experience in journalism, all of them in The Hindu Group. He's a founding member of businessline having joined the newspaper when it was started in 1994 as Research Analyst.
Raghuvir was Business Editor of The Hindu before he took over as Editor of businessline in September 2020. He has stabilised the newspaper in the last three years, made it sharply focussed on the economy, markets and business, with a neutral editorial stance. businessline was redesigned and relaunched under his stewardship in September 2022.
Raghuvir is an avid watcher of the economy and tracks the automobiles and energy sectors, among many others, closely. He has written several editorials over the years on the economy, markets, RBI etc. apart from analytical articles on selected companies and comment pieces in the editorial pages of Business Line and The Hindu.
He was awarded the Chevening Scholarship for Young Journalists by the British’s government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2000. He spent a semester studying journalism at the University of Westminster, London.
As part of the scholarship, he interned at The Economist in London, which published three of his articles.
In 2010, he won the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Fellowship of the East- West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., which is awarded to a journalist each from select Asian countries.
Raghuvir is a Fellow of the Foreign Press Center, Tokyo, Japan.
