Raju Narisetti is the Managing Editor of " Mint" - the national business paper that was launched on February 01, 2007 and is published by HT Media Ltd in exclusive partnership with The Wall Street Journal.

Until June 1, 2006, Raju Narisetti was Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe as well as a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal in the U.S., where he also held overall responsibility for European and Middle East/Africa coverage for all three editions of WSJ. He had 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 in October 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, 40, had been in charge of The Wall Street Journal Europe since February 2003, first as a Managing Editor and later 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 Awards in 2005 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.

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- 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 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, USA.

Mr. Narisetti who is based in New Delhi is married to Kim Barrington, an editor, and has two daughters, Leila and Zola.