PERSON: Ramesh Ponnuru

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Ramesh Ponnuru (/rəˈmɛʃ pəˈnʊəruː/; born August 16, 1974) is an American conservative thinker, political pundit, and journalist. He has been a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2012. He is the editor of National Review magazine, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and a contributing editor to the domestic policy journal National Affairs.

Ponnuru has written on a wide array of political and policy topics, appeared on numerous public affairs and news interview programs, reflecting his widely respected voice on conservative policy. In 2015, Politico Magazine listed both him and his wife, April Ponnuru, as two of the top “Politico 50” influential leaders in American politics. This was the first and only time that a husband and wife appeared on the list at the same time.

Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School, at the age of 16, he attended Princeton University, where he earned a B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude in 1995. He completed a 107-page long senior thesis, titled “Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America, in Brief,” under the supervision of Robert P. George. Raised by a Hindu father and a Lutheran mother, Ponnuru is of Indian descent. Later in life, Ponnuru, once an agnostic, converted to Catholicism. He is married to April Ponnuru.

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