TK Arun - Speaker Profile

T K Arun is Editor, Opinion of The Economic Times, India's leading business paper with a circulation of 800,000 every day. He writes a fortnightly column on the paper's edit page, Cursor.

He has been the paper's Resident Editor at Delhi, headed the economy bureau and looked after the editorial page in another stint in the past. He has been with the paper since 1994, except for a two-and-a-half year stint with the dot com world during 1999-2001, when he edited an online portal call .

He has worked as a technical advisor at the Kerala State Planning Board, before beginning his career in journalism in 1992 at the Observer of Business and Politics, New Delhi.

He did his Master's in economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi