Vipul Mudgal

Vipul Mudgal
Vipul Mudgal, in his office of The Common Cause, New Delhi (2024).
Born	(1960-06-08) June 8, 1960 (age 64) Azamgarh
Citizenship	Indian
Alma mater	Leicester University Indian Institute of Mass Communication St. John's College, Agra
Organization(s)	Common Cause (India), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Vipul Mudgal (born 8 June 1960) is a journalist, academic and social activist. He heads the rights-based NGO, Common Cause, New Delhi. He works on the intersections of democracy, governance and political violence, with emphasis on militancy, extremism, terrorism and counter-terrorism in South Asia. Mudgal has been writing on the perils of extrajudicial methods such as torture and fake police encounters. He did his PhD at Leicester University on Media, State, and Political violence as a Nehru Centenary Fellow.

Vipul has been a journalist with Hindustan Times, India Today, Asia Times and BBC. He was later a visiting senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) where he headed a project called 'Inclusive Media for Change' now part of the 'Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation'.

He has been awarded many global fellowships, like Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship (2020) at Washington DC^[1], Jefferson Fellowship (2003) at the East-West Centre Hawaii, Nehru Centenary British Fellowship(1991) in the UK, and the Visiting Senior Fellowship at the CSDS (2013-2014)^[2].