Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assisting managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins school for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He lives in Washington, D.C. Rajiv’s first book, IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY, was published by Bloomsbury in March 2007 and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2007.

Rajiv’s primary agent is Rafe Sagalyn at the the Sagalyn Literary Agency