Rana Ayyub
Journalist
Rana Ayyub is an Indian investigative journalist and a global opinions writer at the Washington Post. Her pieces appear in the Time, New York Times, Guardian, Atlantic and Foreign Policy. She has reported on religious violence, extrajudicial killings by the state, insurgency in Kashmir, terrorism by the Tamil tigers in Sri Lanka and authored an international bestseller titled “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up', an undercover investigation which exposes the complicity of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in state-sponsored genocide. Her book ‘Gujarat Files’ has been hailed as the equivalent of the Watergate scandal by reviewers across India. With a career spanning sixteen years, Rana has been awarded the Sanskriti award for integrity and excellence in journalism by the former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam. In 2019, she was named by Time magazine among ten global journalists who face maximum threats to their lives across the world. In 2022, Rana has yet again been named among the ten journalists in the world who face maximum threats to their life, the list also includes Nobel Laureate, Maria Ressa. In 2022, for the second time in three years, the UN wrote to India to protect her from state enabled attacks and persecution in response to her journalism. Rana is 38 and lives in Mumbai with her family.
All Sessions by Rana Ayyub
Keynote Speech by Rana Ayyub, Journalist, Washington Post
Committee of the RegionsInternational Panel on Democracy in Era of Geopolitics
Committee of the RegionsIn this inaugural session of the 2022 edition of International Democracy Day in Brussels, experts will lay out the geopolitical context of this watershed moment for democracy and high-level representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America will discuss possible solutions to the challenges of this new era of geopolitics.
