Neeraj Khemlani

Who is Neeraj Khemlani?

Neeraj Khemlani is senior vice president and chief creative officer of the Hearst Corporation, as of December 2012. He joined Hearst in 2009 after serving as a senior executive at Yahoo! News since 2006. Prior to that, Khemlani was a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes television news magazine, where he is responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories with various CBS News correspondents. Before joining CBS News in 1998, Mr. Khemlani was an associate producer for ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings and also produced pieces with Robert Krulwich for Nightline as well as Good Morning America. He is a term member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He graduated with a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a 1992 undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He is married to Heather Cabot, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News. Mr. Khemlani is of Indian heritage, born in Singapore and raised in New York.

He has reported on the shadowy markets and bazaars of Pakistan’s northwest frontier, a lawless region where CBS News set up a sting operation to buy weapons of mass destruction. He also co-produced a three part series with Dan Rather that revealed what Osama bin Laden’s closest associates, advisors and comrade-in-arms were doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Sudan the summer before September 11.