Romesh Ratnesar is Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and an incoming Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. He has spent more than a dozen years as an editor, writer and correspondent for Time, most recently serving as Deputy Managing Editor, the No. 2 position on the magazine's masthead. He has written and edited dozens of cover stories on politics, foreign policy, economics and international affairs and reported from many countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Ratnesar served for more than three years as Time’s foreign editor, overseeing the magazine's coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also written for Slate, The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The New York Post, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs and Lingua Franca. Prior to joining Time, Ratnesar was a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.
With Michael Weisskopf, Ratnesar won the 2004 National Headliner Award for Magazine Reporting and the 2004 Henry R. Luce Award for Time's 2003 “Person of the Year” story on the American soldier. Ratnesar and Weisskopf also won New York Press Club awards for feature writing in 2004 and spot news reporting in 2003.
Ratnesar has twice been a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution and was named a 2004-2005 Young Leader by the French-American Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University.