Jyoti Thottam is the New Delhi Bureau Chief for TIME magazine, a role she assumed in June 2008. She covers business and economics on the Asian subcontinent and also edits global business stories.

Most recently, Thottam served as a senior editor based in New York, a role in which she oversaw and edited major business stories in addition to writing her own. She has written about Bank of America president, chairman and CEO Kenneth Lewis about his decision to purchase mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, the Chinese imports scandals, the UAW-General Motors negotiations, outsourcing to India and other countries, Martha Stewart’s insider-trading case, and the controversy over Dick Grasso’s pay. She joined TIME in 2002 as a reporter and later served as a writer for the business section; she was named senior editor of TIME in 2007.

Born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Houston, Thottam graduated with honors from Yale University and received an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University. She is a past president of the South Asian Journalists Association and is the co-author of a play, Interrogations.