Biographie de Ram Garikipati
With 28+ years experience in Business Journalism/ Corporate Communications, I am now Managing Editore of an academic publisher, responsible for bringing out 27 quarterly journals and 5 magazines. I am based in Hyderabad, India. Prior to this, I was freelance business writer and editor and regularly contributed to newspapers and journals on economic issues. Before that, I was Editor/ Columnist with The Korea Herald, the leading English-daily in South Korea.
I was based in Seoul for 17 years. Before that I was Chief Editor of a bimonthly magazine published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs in Korea. Earlier, I worked as Chief Editor/ Corporate Communications of EUCCK, where I was responsible for Press Relations, which includes interacting with the media on a regular basis, clarifying their story inputs, issuing press releases and arranging media interviews for the President Group (President, 2 Vice-Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary General) of EUCCK.
I was also responsible for the in house business magazines- INFOMAG and INFOMAG REAL ESTATE. From start to finish, I was in charge of planning, interviews, writing, editing, design and marketing of the magazines, heading a team of six. Even before, I worked in The Hindu Business Line newspaper (www.thehindubusinessline.com) at New Delhi from 1995 to 2004. I was responsible for Telecom & IT coverage of both government policy and corporate sectors and a fortnightly columnist and editorial writer.
Earlier in my career at the same organization, I covered banking, macro-economic issues and infrastructure. I am currently working on two novels- a sequel to SCATTERED FATES, and a fiction on 5 global religious icons (Jew/Christian/Islam/ Hindu/Buddhism) meeting together at Central Park New York.