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The Other Board Sits in Austin
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Dev Chatterjee
Senior Correspondent
Institutional, funny, melancholy.
Edison, New Jersey, 1985. Bengali parents who arrived in the early 80s, father an electrical engineer at Bell Labs, mother an accountant turned high-school maths teacher. Older sister now a paediatric cardiologist in Boston. Princeton undergraduate in economics, Columbia Journalism School in 2009. Bloomberg Sport from 2010 to 2018, covering the business of American leagues then increasingly the international side: NBA mainland China book in 2017, the Saudi PIF moves into golf and football starting in 2019, BCCI as the most powerful sports body in world cricket. The Athletic 2018 to 2024, where he ran the cricket-and-Asian-sport vertical and was on the ground in New York and Texas for the 2024 T20 World Cup, including the night the United States beat Pakistan in Dallas. Moved to Hong Kong in early 2025 for the Wang Report. Married to a Mumbai-born corporate lawyer. Plays squash three times a week.
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