MEET THE
FOUNDER

Born in India, studied mathematics at Yale, worked in business, and reported across the Global South

Acclaimed as “one of the great reporters of our age” by BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane

Author of 3 award-winning memoirs “Stringer,” “Bad News,” and “Breakup”

TED Speaker; PEN jury; interviewed by Jon Stewart, Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria, Amy Goodman

Regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and Granta magazine

ANJAN SUNDARAM

I envisioned The Stringer Foundation (TSF) following conversations with philanthropists who are inspired to scale-up the kind of reporting that I do. Our conversations could not have come at a better time—global journalism is in crisis and needs massive help. Authoritarianism and threats from organized crime have made journalism that truly holds power accountable an incredibly dangerous profession, with many young and experienced reporters dropping out due to the risks, the lack of financial rewards, and dwindling community.

In April 2024, I gave a MainStage TED Talk about my war reporting in small indigenous communities battling to save the world’s last pristine ecosystems. My talk highlighted stories that are critical to our collective future but that go untold.

VANDANA CHATLANI
Partnerships

THE TSF TEAM

ALICIA QUIÑONES
Awards

A global team of working experts and pioneers in journalism and democracy

ANDREW MCKEE
Strategy

AUBREY NIEDERHOFFER
Operations

JOSHUA BENDOR
Legal

ANAS REHAMAN
Associate

CELINE BOUSTANI

President, Human Rights Foundation

FERGAL KEANE

Special Correspondent, BBC

JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Correspondent and Pulitzer winner, New York Times

STEPHEN DUNBAR-JOHNSON

President, International New York Times

JANINE DI GIOVANNI

War Reporter and
CEO, The Reckoning Project

BASHARAT PEER

Editor, TIME Magazine

TINA BROWN

Ex-editor, The New Yorker and Founder, Sir Harry Evans Summit

BEN PAUKER

National Security editor

KRISTINE TOMPKINS

Ex-CEO, Patagonia

AKASH SHAH

Executive Committee, Bank of New York

AG SULZBERGER

Publisher, The New York Times

MU SOCHUA

Ex-Minister, Cambodia and Founder, Khmer Movement for Democracy

OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK

Nobel Laureate and Chair, Ukraine Center for Civil Liberties

CLIFF GLICKMAN
Advocacy

LEWIS MUDGE

Central Africa Director, Human Rights Watch

ALEX GLADSTEIN

Chief strategy officer, Human Rights Foundation

RAGHAVA KK

Artist

KUSH SAXENA

Former C-Suite, Mastercard and Santander

SIR MARK THOMPSON

CEO, CNN

GADO

Artist and journalist

DAVID REMNICK

Editor, The New Yorker

JACOB WEISBERG

Chair of the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists

PAUL DANA
Fundraising

JABARI ENNIS
Bitcoin

JAY NORDLINGER

Fellow, Renew Democracy Initiative

LEOPOLDO LÓPEZ

Founder, World Liberty Congress

LEA HELLMULLER
AWARD PROCESS REVIEW

Associate dean, City University London

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR

Chief International Anchor, CNN

ADVISORS AND JURY

SUPPORTERS

WORKING TEAM

ALLAN THOMPSON
AWARD PROCESS REVIEW

Head of the journalism department, Carleton University

ENRICO GIANFRANCHI
Brand & Communications

ARJUN KRISHNAN
Associate

LAUREN SIMPSON
Lawyer