Amar C. Bakshi

Member Record

Location: 

Washington DC and global

Status: 

Professional

Expertise Area: 

world views of America, public diplomacy, foreign policy, journalism, new media

Email: 

amar.bakshi@gmail.com

Affiliation (Occupation/Company/University etc.): 

www.washingtonpost.com/america

Country of Citizenship: 

United States

Date of Birth: 

1984

Amar C. Bakshi spent the past year reporting for the online editions of The Washington Post and Newsweek, traveling around the world looking at how America impacts ordinary lives in a dozen countries. He posted text and video daily at www.washingtonpost.com/america.

Before launching How the World Sees America, Amar worked with David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria as the first editor of PostGlobal, an international affairs forum. Amar is also the founder of Aina Arts, a nonprofit organization connecting local artisans with schools in the developing world, and was the associate managing editor of the Oxford International Review. He graduated from Harvard, writing his thesis on media propaganda in Zimbabwe.

Amar speaks widely on public diplomacy, public opinion, new media, the future of journalism, and America’s image in the world at universities across the United States, think tanks, and on international TV and radio, including CPSAN, BBC and NPR.

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