# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dina-vakil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:10:30.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dina-vakil"
name: "Dina Vakil"
slug: "dina-vakil"
description: "Dina Vakil is a journalist based in Mumbai, India. She became the first ever woman resident editor of The Times of India in 1993, working on the Bombay edition. After graduating from Mt Holyoke College, US in history in 1969, Vakil studied at the Columbia School of Journalism and graduated in 1970. Subsequently, she worked with the UNDP before returning to India."
tagline: "Indian journalist and editor"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           31.34
  momentum:             0.3571428571428572
  historical:           4.867710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2"
    title: "दीना वकिल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دينا ڤاكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Vakil"
    title: "Dina Vakil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "దినా వాకిల్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B2"
    title: "ਦੀਨਾ ਵਕੀਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "دینا وکیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16107537"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump