RAJU NARISETTI is one of the most senior journalists of South Asian origin working in American newspapers .

Raju Narisetti is currently editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe as well as a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal in the U.S., and holds also holds overall responsibility for European and Middle East/Africa coverage for all global editions of The Wall Street Journal.  He has been instrumental in the development of the European and Asian editions as a convenient, easy-to-read, global business news briefing which includes the launch of a compact format on Oct. 17, 2005, to replace the broadsheet edition and closer integration with The Wall Street Journal Online. 

A 13-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Narisetti, 39, has been in charge of The Wall Street Journal Europe since February 2003, first as a Managing Editor and now as the Editor. Under his news stewardship, the Journal Europe won several journalism honors, including a 2004 Overseas Press Club award, the German Marshall Fund prize, the 2004 Best International Publication award from Media Tenor and six ‘Business Journalist of the Year’ 2005 awards from the World Leadership Forum. Mr. Narisetti also played a key role in the creation and execution of a Global News Desk for all three editions of The Wall Street Journal and was also named Global News Editor/Europe for the Journal in September 2003. 

Prior to his European stint, Mr. Narisetti was a deputy national editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York from April 2002, helping guide daily news coverage.        

A reporting intern for the Journal in the summer of 1991, Mr. Narisetti joined the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal as a reporter in 1994 in its Pittsburgh bureau, covering manufacturing industries and writing a regular page-one column on workplace issues. His subsequent reporting assignments included covering consumer-product companies such as Procter & Gamble and later, from New York, covering technology companies including IBM and Xerox. 

Mr. Narisetti moved to an editing role in February 1999, first as an assistant news editor on the Journal’s national news desk, and, in September, was named a news editor in charge of media, retail, advertising and consumer-product coverage.  In October 2000, he took on the additional responsibility for handling technology-news coverage.   

Prior to joining the Journal, he was a business writer for the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News from 1992-94; and The Economic Times from 1989-90. 

Born in Hyderabad, Mr. Narisetti has a bachelor's degree in economics and sociology from Osmania University in Hyderabad.  He received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) in Anand, a postgraduate diploma from the Times of India School of Journalism in New Delhi and an M.A. in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington.       

Mr. Narisetti currently lives in Brussels with his wife Kim Barrington and two daughters, Leila and Zola and can be reached at Raju.Narisetti@wsj.com. 

Despite his busy schedule, Mr. Narisetti is an active mentor to younger journalists and a behind-the-scenes guiding force of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association. "Over the years, Raju has served as a sounding board and advisor on several major decisions," said Sreenath Sreenivasan, SAJA co-founder. "From being a judge on our awards to helping set the tone and standards of our events and outreach, Raju has been an inspiration to all of us."