Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

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Who is Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran?

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award winning Correspondent for The Economist.

He is currently the magazine’s China Business Editor. His editorial responsibilities range from business and finance to science, technology and innovation.

Vaitheeswaran was born in Madras, India and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and was named a Harry S. Truman Presidential Scholar by the U.S. Congress.

He started working at The Economist as an intern. After a year as a correspondent, he opened the publication's first office in Latin America, in Mexico City. From 1998 to 2006 he was the Environment and Energy Correspondent for The Economist and from 2007 to 2011 he covered innovation and health issues.

His new book on the future of global innovation, published by Harper Collins, is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems". Kirkus Reviews has called it “the perfect primer for the postindustrial age.”

Vijay is a life member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum, and a regular speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative. He teaches at NYU’s Stern Business School. He serves as chairman of the Economist's provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy.

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Also known as
  • Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • India
Profession
Education
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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on July 23, 2013

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