Aman Sethi

Notable work and positions

openDemocracy - Editor-in-Chief
HuffPost - Deputy Executive Editor; HuffPost India - Editor-in-Chief (2018-2020)
BuzzFeed - Executive Editor for Strategy
The Hindu - Chhattisgarh correspondent; Africa correspondent

Biography

Aman Sethi is an Indian journalist and writer who serves as editor-in-chief of openDemocracy. Born in Mumbai in 1983, he was educated at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Delhi, studied chemistry at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and then studied journalism at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai before completing a business journalism program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 2008 as an Inlaks Scholar. As Chhattisgarh correspondent for The Hindu, he reported for two years on the Maoist insurgency in the state and won the International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues in 2011. In August 2012 he became The Hindu's Africa correspondent, based in Addis Ababa. He later served as associate editor at the Hindustan Times, editor-in-chief of HuffPost India from 2018 until the edition closed in November 2020, editorial director at Coda Media, executive editor for strategy at BuzzFeed, and deputy executive editor at HuffPost, before joining openDemocracy as editor-in-chief. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book A Free Man, and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar (Youth Award) for the best English book by a young author in 2012, an honor he returned in 2015 in solidarity with other writers protesting shrinking space for free expression in India.

Career highlights

• A Free Man · Won the Economist-Crossword award for nonfiction and the International Committee of the Red Cross award for humanitarian reportage.
• Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2012 · Awarded for the best English-language book by a young author; returned in 2015 in protest over shrinking space for free expression in India.