DR. VIPUL MUDGAL

Dr. Vipul Mudgal has been a journalist and academic in India, the UK, and South East Asia for over 30 years. He joined Common Cause as the Director and Chief Executive in 2015.

He has been the Resident Editor of Hindustan Times in Jaipur and Lucknow, an India Today Correspondent in Chandigarh, South Asia Editor of Asia Times in Bangkok, and a BBC journalist in London and Delhi. He specialises on insurgency, extremism and terrorism and writes extensively on the perils of extrajudicial methods of tackling violence.

Vipul has a doctorate in media studies from Leicester University, UK, as a Nehru Centenary Fellow. He was awarded the Reagan Fascell Democracy Fellowship at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, Washington D.C. in 2020 and the Jefferson Fellowship at the East-West Centre, Hawaii in 2003.

In 2009, he joined the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) as the founding Director of the Inclusive Media for Change. The project’s website, im4change.org, works as a clearing house of ideas, information and alternatives on the issues of the marginalised. At CSDS, Vipul also worked as a Visiting Senior Fellow and the founding Director of the Publics and Policies Programme.

As an activist and a media scholar, he writes and works on the intersections of media, democracy, and political violence. He has delivered lectures at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Brown, Massachusetts, DU, and Jamia Millia Islamia, among others. 

He loves Yoga, cooking and long-distance driving.