Global Advisory Committee

Anand is a media and communications professional having worked for over 20 years in large media houses, academics and corporate sector. In 2010, he founded GreyMatters Communications & Consulting, offering advisory services in Public Relations, Public Af fairs, Political Communications, CSR, Social Media, Advocacy and host of related areas. He is a commentator, blogger and columnist and writes on a range of media, social, political and economic issues. His weekly column, published every week between 2016 – February 2019 in national daily The Pioneer, was very popular. He has been associat ed as consultant and trainer with government & police agencies including UP Govern ment, Assam Government, Bihar Government, Meghalaya Government, Indian Police Service (Central) Association, Rajasthan Police, UP Police, Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Ministry of Tribal Affairs etc. He has also consulted major politi cal parties including BJP, Indian National Congress, JD (U) on on media and social me dia management. Anand has consulted agencies including the World Bank, International Labour Organization and Unicef. Previously, Anand worked as General Manager, Corporate Affairs & Communications at Reliance Industries Limited, New Delhi. Prior to that, Anand worked extensively in journalism including The Indian Express (1996-99), The Times of India (2004-2006) and The Pioneer (2006-07). He had a stint at tech mag azine PC World (1999-2000) as editor as well. Anand blends vast professional experi ence with high-end academic and research training. A doctorate in Sociology of Me dia from prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, Anand has authored two books including The Media Effect (2003, Spectrum) and made over 50 contributions by way of chapters, academic papers for national and international journals on com munication, book reviews and seminar presentations. Anand has been a visiting faculty teaching media policy, journalism, marketing & strategic communication, CSR communications, and public relations at many presti gious institutions including Indian Institute of Mass Communications, IIM Lucknow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Amity School of Communication, Asia Pacific Institute of Management, Lady Shri Ram College, MDI Gurgaon. He has also set undergradu ate and postgraduate examination papers for Delhi University and Indraprastha University. A graduate in Economics from DU’s Hindu College, Anand has written on a variety of subjects including health, education, automobile, information technology, urbaniza tion, new-economy trends in his journalism career. Anand is a keen blogger and con tributes to various newspapers as well. He is a Member of International Centre of Goa, Press Club of India. He is also Founder, President, Forum for Indian Journalists on Education, Environment, Health & Agriculture (Fijeeha), a development communica tion forum and a pan-India & South Asia network of journalists (www.fijeeha.in)

WORKSHOPS / PARTICIPATION / PUBLICATION

Participated as a panelist in live television shows, Public Forum at Lok Sabha Television on top ics like Poverty & Inequality, TV Soap and Impact on Society, Direct To Home & Conditional Access System (CAS); Times Now on Consumers Issue; Digital Divide and Developing Nations at IIMC to communication professionals from SAARC countries; Media, Community and Change at Lady Irwin College to students of Michigan State University attached to Department of Commu nity Resource Management and Extension; Training on Why, How and What of Communication in Development Sector for a team of development graduates (XISS, Bhubaneshwar, TISS, Mumbai) for SEWA India. Workshop with PR managers of PSUs on The Making of A Publicity Campaign as part of 2-day session on Effective PR & Media Strategies organised by MDI, Gurgaon. Served as reviewer to online journal New Media & Society of University of Illinois, USA; Chapter Modi Magic Unfolds in Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government, Edited by Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly, Kishore Desai, Wisdom Tree, New Delhi. 2018; Chapter JP & Gandhi: Press as Partners in Quest for Participatory Democracy, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, India, 2010; Paper Grim future for Indian tabloid in Vidura, a journal of Press Institute of India. Vol 44, Is sue 3, July – Sep 2007. Paper Internet & political communication in Communication Today, Vol 10, No 2, April – June 2007, Jaipur India. Chapter What makes news in book Making News, Ox ford University Press, 2006; Old Age Pension in India: Scope for Expansion, a World Bank spon sored research paper for Chronic Poverty Group, UK, 2006; Book review of The Wired Home stead, An MIT Press Sourcebook on the Internet and the Family (Ed. By Joseph Turow and An drea L. Kavanaugh), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003 in the International Jour nal of Mass Media, University of St Gallen, Switzerland: IJMM 6 (3&4) Pp247-250, December 2004.