Tamil Nadu builds an investment appeal beyond automotives
The Indian region of Tamil Nadu is a rising hotspot for investment, building impressively beyond its traditional strength in automotives.
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Sebastian Shehadi
Sebastian Shehadi is political editor and senior editor at Investment Monitor and a contributing writer for the New Statesman. He joined from the Financial Times, where he was an editor at fDi Magazine. He takes special interest in tourism, tier-two cities, green energy, real estate and emerging markets, and has written for the FT, the BBC, Sifted and Middle East Eye. Prior to his career in journalism, Sebastian served as a political risk analyst at Citibank.
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