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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi is co-author of The Aadhaar Effect: Why the World’s Largest Identity Project Matters (2018) and a co-founder at Founding Fuel, a media and learning platform. He is a recipient of the Polestar and Madhu Valluri Awards for excellence in journalism, and is a contributor to the Hindustan Times. Earlier, he was managing editor at Forbes India, national business editor at the Times of India, and worked across various newsrooms in Europe with media conglomerate Vogel Burda to set up the India edition of CHIP, the group’s flagship computing magazine. He graduated in the biosciences from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and has an MA in Economics.
Year: 2019