Shefali anchors the Asia News Network (ANN) project as its editor & director and is the ANN editor for The Straits Times. The network is an alliance of 22 leading media titles, co-founded by The Straits Times in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shefali has widely covered regional affairs for The Straits Times, and before that at India\u2019s leading news magazine India Today. She began her career as a radio news anchor and wrote extensively on the terrorism threat after the 9\/11 attacks. She\u2019s interviewed leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi and Klaus Schwab and hosted panel discussions at Davos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shefali has anchored several projects at The Straits Times, where she is responsible for international media partnerships. Among them, the award-winning Asia Report title, which is now the paper’s Asian Insider effort, and its photo syndication site, Photonico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working with the paper\u2019s editor-in-chief, she helped to establish the Asia chapter of the World Editors Forum, a network of editors under the Wan-Ifra alliance of news publishers and is a member of the team behind World News Day, which is celebrated on September 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1468,"template":"","speaker-group":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acpc.asia\/acpc22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-group?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}