Dr Ajit Kumar Jha

Ajit Kumar Jha launched the GULF Tribune from Doha, Qatar in Feb-March 2006. He is the Editor of the new English-French daily, a fiercely independent editorially driven newspaper. Ajit looks after the strategic partnerships with other news agencies and newspapers globally and working out the editorial policy as well the layout and design.

Ajit had launched Oman Tribune and had been the Editor of the newspaper. Under Ajit’s leadership, Oman Tribune turned out to be the number one editorial product of Oman. Ajit received Oman’s most prestigious award for his series on the paradoxes of Omanisation and liberalisation.

In India, Ajit was a senior editor at India Today in New Delhi. He headed the election cell of the magazine and was the leading psephologist for the TV Today networks (Aaj Tak and Headlines Today). He has worked with the leading dailies of India like The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times , The Sunday Express and has also launched the Lucknow edition of the paper and has been a Resident Editor of the Bombay Edition. He also taught at the Times School of Journalism and Management.

His areas of interest include international politics, democracy and economic development and the environment. Ajit received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and has M.Litt in Politics from the University of Oxford, England.

Ajit has also taught at the UCLA for four years. He was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship and the Radhakrishnan Bequest while at Oxford, the American Institute of Indian Studies fellowship from the Smithsonian Foundation at the UCLA. He was also a Salzburg Seminarist. He attended the 10th World Report conference at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta and in New York.