Rajdeep Sardesai, our Vice-Chairman is currently the President of Editors Guild of India. He is also Editor-in-Chief of CNN-IBN, IBN7, IBN Lokmat channels under the IBN Network. He has 20 years of journalistic experience in print and television. Prior to setting up the IBN network channels , he was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels. Mr Rajdeep Sardesai has also worked with The Times of India for over 5 years and was city editor of its mumbai edition at the age of 26. During the last 20 years, he has covered major national and international stories, specialising in national politics. He has won numerous other awards for journalistic excellence, including the prestigious Padma Shri for journalism in 2008, the international broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism award for 2007. He has won the Asian television award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy for six of the last seven years.
