Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is currently an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.

At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

His first book is Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone published in 2006, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. It is currently being made into a film, written and directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon.

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