Dhruti Shah

Journalist, Broadcaster, Author

Dhruti Shah is a multi-award-winning journalist and author. As a freelance creative practitioner she draws upon her 20 years in journalism to harness the power of human-centred storytelling to create change. Starting her career in newspapers, she then spent 14 years at the BBC newsroom where she broke digital records while in the US, had a reputation as a tenacious investigator, created viral stories and changed newsroom practices. As a freelancer, she has written nuanced conversation-generating pieces on subjects as varied as belonging, environmental justice, trauma, energy and even tea for The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Humanitarian, the New Humanist and The Lead.


She is the author of the illustrated award-winning financial literacy guide Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms. She is an advisor for the Museum of Colour, a Board Trustee for The John Schofield Trust charity and has five global fellowships. In 2024 she was selected to be a member of the UK Young Academy, an interdisciplinary organisation focused on global solutions and supported by the Royal Society and British Academy. She is part of the international collective I Am Not A Typo campaigning for tech giants to make autocorrect more inclusive. She is an experienced public speaker working with clients worldwide and has hosted podcasts for Haleon and TRANSFORM (an initiative of the UK Foreign Office, EY and Unilever). She also has her own podcast called Have You Thought About and a Substack newsletter of the same name. Her portfolio can be found at www.dhrutishah.com