Who Is Amol Rajan? Meet The New Presenter Of University Challenge

Amol Rajan is an Indian-born British journalist, editor and broadcaster who was the BBC’s Media Editor and a presenter on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 since 2021.

In August 2022, it was announced that Amol Rajan would take over from Jeremy Paxman as the host of the University Challenge from autumn 2023 onwards.

In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a national newspaper in over a century when his Independent appointment was announced.

Amol Rajan was born on July 4, 1983, in Kolkata, India. Amol Rajan was editor of The Independent newspaper from June 2013.

Amol Rajan was born in Calcutta, India, to a mother from Poona and a Tamil father from Combaconum. Amol Rajan was three when his family moved to England and he was raised in Tooting, South West London.

At the age of 18, Amol Rajan worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for one year during his gap year at college.

Amol Rajan was appointed the BBC’s first Media Editor in November 2016. He has also hosted The Big Debate on the BBC Asian Network.