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Partha Ghosh joins JSW as executive vice president and group head of communications
The former global head of communications at Air India, who also ran corporate communications and CSR at Samsung, is moving to Mumbai with his family
MUMBAI: New job, new city, same appetite for the big brief. Partha Ghosh has joined the JSW Group as executive vice president and group head of communications, and he and his family are making Mumbai their new home. For a communications leader who has moved from newsroom to boardroom, from Samsung to Air India, this is a chapter with plenty of energy.
Ghosh announced the move in a LinkedIn post, describing it as “new beginnings, new city”. He said he was drawn to JSW by its leadership and sense of purpose. In his words, this is an organisation that is not only building world-class businesses, but is also laying the foundations of a progressive India, nurturing sports champions of tomorrow, conserving the country’s rich heritage and art, and transforming communities across the country. He added that he is looking forward to working alongside passionate, talented colleagues who are building the organisation every single day.
He arrives with a résumé that few in Indian communications can match. Ghosh joined JSW in September 2026, based in Mumbai, after a stint at Air India that ran for three years and five months. At the airline he served as global head of communications from May 2023 to September 2026, based in Gurugram, and as advisor to the ceo from February 2026 to September 2026. Communications, reputation and crisis management sit at the heart of his profile, along with a record as a transformation leader and a strategic communicator.
Before Air India, Ghosh spent eight years and eight months at Samsung Electronics. He was vice president and head, corporate communications and corporate citizenship and CSR from January 2021 to May 2023. Earlier, he was vice president and head, corporate communications from April 2017 to January 2021, and vice president and head of corporate communications for India and Southwest Asia. He began at Samsung as director, corporate communications, from October 2014 to March 2017, when he was head of corporate communications for India and Southwest Asia, based in Gurgaon.
The corporate chapter rests on a formidable career in journalism. Ghosh spent seven years and eight months at The Economic Times in New Delhi as senior editor, from March 2007 to October 2014. He wrote on business, the economy, companies, sectors, start-ups, leaders and politics, led large teams and new projects such as Power of Ideas, and launched ET Gujarati and ET Hindi. He also edited Sunday ET. Along the way he interviewed Narendra Modi three times, and interviewed Pranab Mukherjee when he was finance minister.
At the paper, he was national editor for real estate and hospitality, media and entertainment, and luxury from March 2011 to September 2014. He evolved the coverage strategy for sectors key to the organisation’s growth, headed a team of reporters, and liaised with companies, associations, bankers, investors, private equity firms, ministers and bureaucrats. He built new verticals from scratch that helped the paper break free from heavy, number-crunching content, and the efforts won ET Wordsmith Awards on several occasions.
As editor of The Economic Times on Sunday, from December 2009 to February 2011, he conceived and managed a complete end-to-end product every week, with around 20 reporters, copy editors and designers reporting to him. He set up a crack team, redesigned the paper and made it feature-based, and produced several special editions. As editor of The Economic Times Hindi, from January 2008 to February 2011, he launched a brand new paper with a team of 20 people, working closely with brands, response and marketing teams. The launch was time-bound, the teams met all deadlines, and the paper went out on schedule. It won accolades and earned him the additional responsibility of editing ET on Sunday.
As editor of emerging businesses, VC and private equity, from March 2007 to February 2010, Ghosh launched and headed the small companies vertical, the first national vertical at ET. It expanded coverage of start-ups, MSMEs, VCs and PEs, and helped the launch of Starting Up, ET Now’s programme on start-ups. He also led the editorial initiative of the Power of Ideas campaign in 2009 and 2010. Its first two editions drew more than 12,000 entries, and he was awarded the Chairman’s Award for the effort.
Earlier, as resident editor of The Economic Times in Ahmedabad and editor of ET Gujarati, from March 2004 to May 2007, he led the reporting team and turned around the Ahmedabad edition. Circulation of the English edition rose by more than 50 per cent, and the team grew from four reporters to 30 journalists. He opened new editorial offices in Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot, brought the chief minister, his government and key businessmen on board, and successfully thwarted competition from DNA Money and later DNA in Gujarat. He also launched ET Gujarati, the paper’s first vernacular foray, as its editor. He rose from bureau chief to assistant editor, senior assistant editor and resident editor in three years, before being promoted to senior editor and moved to the Delhi office.
His earlier career covers some of India’s best-known newsrooms. He was special correspondent at Business Standard from October 2000 to February 2004, on the companies team, writing on automobiles, petroleum and consumer sectors, and industrial and FDI policy. He was principal correspondent at Hindu Business Line, The Hindu Group, from January 1997 to October 2000, writing on companies and on industrial and foreign investment policies. He was correspondent at The Telegraph from January 1996 to January 1997, and began his career as sub-editor at Computers Today, India Today Group (Living Media), from May 1994 to January 1996, working the desk, writing editorials and anchoring by the end of that stint.
Ghosh closed his announcement with thanks to the friends, mentors and colleagues who have been part of his journey so far. “Here’s to the road ahead!” he wrote. For JSW, it is a hire that brings newsroom instinct, boardroom experience and a storyteller’s craft to a group with a lot of story to tell.
