Tunku Varadarajan

About

Tunku Varadarajan was the Hoover Institution's institutional editor and editor-in-chief of Hoover’s in-house publication Defining Ideas. He was previously a research fellow at Hoover and the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism.  A writer-at-large at the Daily Beast, he was a former editor of Newsweek and Newsweek International. Previously, he was executive editor (opinions) at Forbes, assistant managing editor and op-ed editor of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York bureau chief for The Times (of London). Born in India, he is a British citizen. A visiting scholar at New York University's Department of Journalism, he is a former lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford. He has also taught at NYU's Stern School of Business, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Varadarajan has a BA in law, with honors, from Oxford University.