Harish Khare is a former Media Advisor of the Indian Prime Minister who remained in Prime Minister's Office from June 2009 to January 2012. On January 19, 2012 he resigned from his post & vacated the position for Pankaj Pachauri, Managing Editor NDTV India, who will be joining as Prime Minister's Communication Advisor. Harish Khare has worked as Resident Editor and chief of bureau with The Hindu in New Delhi, India. On November 14, 2012, he was awarded the Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship for his project "Governing India in the 21 st Century: Reinventing Nehruvian Executive Leadership Mode."Harish Khare is married to the social worker Renana Jhabvala.