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Raheel Khursheed an Indian journalist and business executive.

Raheel Khursheed is an Indian journalist and business executive. He has worked for CNN-IBN, Times Now, and Radio Kashmir, but is most noted for being the Head of News, Politics and Government for Twitter India from 2014 to 2018. He is currently serving as a Country Expert for Snap Inc.’s business in India.

Khursheed was born in Anantnag, in a remote part of Kashmir, described as a place where a national daily would reach two days past its publication date. He did his BSc from local government degree college, and further did his master’s degree in communication and journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication.

Khursheed has been honoured by several educational institutions around the world. In 2017, he was awarded the Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University, the Yale World Fellows at Yale University.He was listed among Asia Society’s 2017 class of Asia 21, a network of young leaders. In 2018, he was a Draper Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University.

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