Nirmal Ghosh, 65, is a former foreign correspondent of 30 years for The Straits Times, Singapore’s and South East Asia’s #1 English daily.

Nirmal has been a foreign correspondent in Manila, New Delhi, Bangkok and Washington DC, covering politics, elections, conflict and coups d’etat, natural disasters, social and environmental issues and geopolitics across Asia and the United States. His journalism has won PANPA and SOPA awards. He was a Jefferson Fellow of the East West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii) in the summer of 2015, and a Presidential Election Reporting Fellow in the fall of 2016.

Nirmal was a two-term President of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) and a three-term President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Thailand (FCCT).

He is also affiliated with the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. Active in wildlife conservation, he is a Trustee of The Corbett Foundation, a non-profit which works with local communities and authorities to enhance wildlife conservation and mitigate human-wildlife conflict, across five protected areas in India. He is also a documentary film maker, podcaster and author of six books, his most recent being Backlash : Donald Trump and the Remaking of America (World Scientific, Singapore, 2025)