Kavita Chandran

Kavita Chandran is a trainer and news content adviser based in Singapore. As a journalist for more than 25 years, she has worked in newsrooms across the United States and Asia. She started her career in New Delhi as a business reporter and moved on to anchor shows for CNBC Asia. She worked as a breaking news editor with Bloomberg in New York, and then spent 10 years in Reuters’ newsrooms as a trainer and front page editor. Kavita is currently a journalism trainer with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she teaches journalists across Asia about climate change, human trafficking, racial injustice, social inclusion and other global issues. She is also a mentor and speaker on solutions journalism as a catalyst for change in the media. Kavita is a published author of a book, a freelance journalist, and an adjunct faculty member in journalism and communications at Murdoch University, Kaplan Institute, and S.P. Jain Global School of Management. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York.