Mr. Pranjal Sharma
Pranjal Sharma is an economic analyst, advisor and writer who focuses on technology, globalisation and media. He guides projects on economic forecasting, business intelligence and public diplomacy with Indian and global organisations. Pranjal creates and develops research projects that interpret policy impact on industry and society. He is visiting and guest faculty at post graduate schools.
Pranjal serves as a member on the Global Agenda Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption at the World Economic Forum. He is also a Speaker at The Outstanding Speakers Bureau.
He is co-author of The Z Factor. He is writing his next book on how technology is changing business models. Pranjal has written and edited several reports and papers on economic development.
Apart from his economic advisory role, he also hosts a weekly conversation show The Appointment on leadership and strategy for Zee Network and writes for BusinessWorld magazine among other publications.
Previously, he spent more than two decades in print, internet and TV media, mostly in leadership roles with focus on India's economic engagement with the world.
He has served as Advisor Strategy to India's public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati, (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India) where he helped bring in industry best practices and enabled creation of digital media teams.
As Executive Editor at Bloomberg UTV, he helped launch and run the channel. At TV Today Network, his team pioneered business news content for non-English audiences. Pranjal received the News Television Award for best business presenter in 2007. He lives in New Delhi, India.