Adi Ignatius is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...

. He joined the magazine in January 2009.

Previously, he was deputy managing editor for Time

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

, where he was responsible for many of Time’s special editions, including the Person of the Year and Time 100

Time 100

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 franchises. Before that, Ignatius served as executive editor of TIME starting in 2002, responsible for the magazine’s business and international coverage. He wrote frequently for the magazine, including cover stories on Google

Google

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 and the 2007 Person of the Year profile of Russian leader Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

. Ignatius joined TIME as Deputy Editor of TIME Asia in 1996, based in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, and was named Editor of that edition in 2000.

Prior to joining TIME, Ignatius worked for many years at The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, serving as the newspaper’s bureau chief in Beijing

Beijing

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 and later in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. He later served as managing editor of the Central European Economic Review and business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review

Far Eastern Economic Review

The Far Eastern Economic Review was an English language Asian news magazine started in 1946. It printed its final issue in December 2009. The Hong Kong-based business magazine was originally published weekly...

, publications owned by Dow Jones, Inc.

Dow Jones & Company

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.

Ignatius was awarded a Zuckerman Fellowship at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1990. He received his BA in History in 1981 from Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

 in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...

 and the Asia Society

Asia Society

The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States and around the world Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, and Melbourne...

 and sits on the advisory board of the journalism school at SUNY Stony Brook.

Book Projects

Ignatius is coeditor, with Bao Pu and Renee Chiang, of the book Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang is a 360-page book in English published in May 2009 containing the memoirs of People's Republic of China's former communist leader who was sacked after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. It is based on a series of about 30 audio...

. The book is based on audiotapes that Zhao Ziyang

Zhao Ziyang

Zhao Ziyang was a high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China . He was the third Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989....

, the former Premier of the People's Republic of China, recorded at home during 1999 and 2000.

In 2008, Ignatius was editor of the book “President Obama: The Path to the White House,” which made the New York Times bestseller list.