Anjan Sundaram

Why you should listen

Anjan Sundaram spent a decade writing about 21st-century dictatorships, forgotten wars and discrimination around the world — from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India. He is the author of Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime (2023); Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (Ingabire prize, PEN America prize finalist, Amazon Best Book of 2016); and Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Royal African Society Book of the Year in 2014, BBC Book of the Week). Now he is focusing his pen on a different conflict: the global fight against climate change. He writes for publications including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and Granta magazine. He is a TED Fellow.