India’s election, economy and future

Speakers

• Patrick Foulis

  Foreign editor

  Patrick Foulis is The Economist‘s foreign editor, responsible for its coverage globally outside of Britain and the United States. He was previously business affairs editor, running the economics, business, finance and science coverage between 2018 and 2022. He has also been New York bureau chief, US business editor and written the Schumpeter column. Before that he set up a new editorial bureau in Mumbai where he was based for four years as our India business and finance editor. Prior to that he was banking editor. Patrick joined The Economist in 2008. He is the author of special reports on the world economy, and on business in Asia and in emerging markets. He and four colleagues won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2012 for coverage of the eurozone crisis. Before joining Patrick worked at the Financial Times, where he was deputy editor of the Lex Column, and as a sell-side analyst in London, mainly on UBS Warburg’s number-one ranked European telecoms team. Patrick graduated with a double first class degree in social and political sciences from Cambridge University and was born and brought up in Scotland.
• Arjun Ramani

  Global business & economics correspondent

  Arjun Ramani is The Economist’s global business & economics correspondent. He joined the paper as a Marjorie Deane intern and has written covers on venture capital (“Adventure Capitalism”) and economic policy (“Enter Third Wave Economics”). Before that he worked on an emerging markets trading desk at Citadel. Arjun’s economics research on the “Donut Effect” of Covid-19 on America’s largest cities has been covered by Bloomberg, The Washington Post and The Economist among other papers. He graduated with honors from Stanford University where he studied economics and computer science and was a Kennedy Prize winner for best undergraduate thesis.
• Avantika Chilkoti

  International correspondent

  Avantika is international correspondent at The Economist and host of The Modi Raj, a podcast series about India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. Before joining the newspaper she covered finance for The Wall Street Journal and was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times based in Mumbai and Jakarta. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, where she was a Kennedy Scholar.
• Jeremy Page

  Asia diplomatic editor

  Jeremy Page is The Economist’s Asia diplomatic editor, based in New Delhi. He covers China-related stories across the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Before joining the paper in 2022, he worked in Beijing for 11 years as The Wall Street Journal’s chief correspondent for Chinese domestic politics, international relations and security issues. He was also based in China with Reuters from 1997-2002 and later worked as Moscow correspondent and South Asia bureau chief for The Times (of London). He has won 12 international journalism prizes, including two from the Overseas Press Club of America, a Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting, and the Hugo Shong Journalist of the Year for Reporting on Asia award. He was a Pulitzer Finalist for International Reporting in 2021.