Anjan Sundaram

Anjan Sundaram is an Indian author, journalist and television presenter whose work documents conflict, repression and the people who stand up to them. Born in Ranchi and raised in Dubai, he trained as a mathematician at Yale. He then turned down a job at Goldman Sachs to report from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda as a stringer for The New York Times and the Associated Press.

His memoirs follow that path. Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo drew comparisons to Ryszard Kapuściński and V. S. Naipaul. Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (2016) exposes the silencing of the press in Rwanda. It won the Moore Prize and was a finalist for the PEN America nonfiction prize, and Sundaram received threats against his life after its publication. Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime (2023) examines what war reporting costs a family.

Sundaram won the Frontline Club Award for his reporting from the Central African Republic. In 2025 he received the inaugural World Liberty Congress prize for outstanding journalism. He holds a PhD in journalism from the University of East Anglia and has spoken at TED and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also hosted Coded World, a documentary series about algorithms and AI. He founded The Stringer Foundation to support courageous journalists.