Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, author. He is a consulting editor at the India Today group, and hosts the 9:00 p.m prime time show on India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat; he resigned in July 2014.
Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to a Goan father and a Gujarati mother. His father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian Test cricketer and his mother, Nandini, is an activist in Mumbai and former head of the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School in Mumbai, did two years of ISC in The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in economics from St. Xavier's College. He then went to University College, Oxford, earning the degrees of Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Laws.