Atul Singh is the founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Fair Observer.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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EDUCATION
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CAREER
Atul Singh is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organisation in the United States that aspires to enlighten and educate global people through its journal and teaching programmes. Its crowdsourced multimedia journal, with rigorous editorial processes, offers a 360° perspective to assist readers in making sense of the world. The magazine has over 1,800 writers from over 70 countries and is recognised by the US Library of Congress (ISSN 2372-9112). Journalism, geopolitics, the global economy, diversity, and other topics are covered in Fair Observer’s education and training programmes for students, young professionals, and corporate executives. The 2016 Voices of the World Program, co-sponsored by the United Nations Foundation, was Fair Observer’s largest training programme to date, involving over 300 youngsters from six countries: India, Morocco, Kenya, Austria, Mexico, and the United States. The World Bank, Knowledge@Wharton, and the University of Oxford are all partners in Fair Observer.
Singh is a well-known public thinker and educator who teaches political economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and world history at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He is a well-known public speaker on global issues who has presented lectures and speeches, as well as seminars and workshops, at organisations such as Harvard, the United Nations, and Google.
Every week, Singh publishes The World This Week, a column on the most important global issues that is read on Wall Street, at the World Bank, and at the White House. Singh also co-writes the highly regarded Africa This Month with Samuel Ollunga, a Cambridge and Harvard-educated Kenyan lawyer. His understanding of the global economy, geopolitics, and world affairs is extraordinary. Singh’s views of the Greek debt crisis, the Chinese stock market meltdown, and climate change are required reading at world-class colleges. Singh foresaw the Great Recession of 2008 in a seminal piece titled “Mountains of Debt, Oceans of Reserves: The Yankee Doodle and Dragon Dance” in early 2007.
Singh comes from a broad background. On the Radhakrishnan Scholarship, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, and he earned an MBA with a triple major in finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He worked as a corporate lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, where he represented clients such as the Queen and the Bank of England. Singh was an elite officer in the border regions of Nagaland and Kashmir. He was also a poet, writer, athlete, mountaineer, and the creator of numerous organisations. Singh’s knowledge is diverse, and his friends often quip that it comes in useful when Google is unavailable. Singh was granted a green card by the US government in 2013 for exceptional competence in foreign policy and international affairs.
