Varun Aggarwal Asia Pacific News Editor at Foundry

Varun Aggarwal is the Asia Pacific News Editor at Foundry (Formerly IDG Communications). He has been a business journalist for close to two decades having worked with The Economic Times, The Hindu, Reuters and The Indian Express.
He has been actively tracking areas of technology, economic policies, real estate and finance. In doing so, he has interviewed former Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, AMD CEO Lisa Su and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins,among many other global leaders.

In his current role, Varun heads the news operations for Foundry publications in the Asia Pacific Region including Computerworld, Network World, InfoWorld, CIO and CSO Online.

He was invited by the US Department of State to meet influential decision-makers in the USA and has interviewed many dignitaries, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and other bureaucrats.

Varun has also extensively travelled to the hinterlands of the country to dig out the truths behind some of the government initiatives. He has also been a speaker at various business conferences and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) events.