Ashok K Bhattacharya

AK Bhattacharya, at present is the Editorial Director at Business Standard, a leading business newspaper of the country. He is based in New Delhi. He was born in 1956.

He has been an economic journalist for the last four decades. He has served as the Editor of Business Standard. Earlier, he was the Editor of The Pioneer and worked for The Financial Express and The Economic Times in different leadership roles. For many years, he has been writing a column, Raisina Hill, which appears in Business Standard and comments on government affairs, development issues and the economy. He is also a regular participant in economic policy discussions organised by different multi-media platforms. He is a distinguished fellow of Ananta Aspen Centre, a think tank with global affiliation, and a member of the Economic Affairs Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

A former general secretary of Editors Guild of India, he won the Shriram Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism in 2017. He is the author of The Rise of Goliath: Twelve Disruptions That Changed India, published by Penguin in July 2019 and India’s Finance Ministers: From Independence to Emergency (1947-1977), published by Penguin in May 2023. His third book – India’s Finance Ministers: Stumbling into Reforms (1977-1998), also published by Penguin, was released in January 2024.