Sucheta Dalal

Sucheta Dalal is among the best known financial journalists in India. Her three decades of outstanding investigative reporting spans the Harshad Mehta scam, CR Bhansali scam, exposé of Enron, bad loans in banks, numerous corporate shenanigans and regulatory lapses have appeared in Business Standard, The Economic Times and The Times of India.

She received the Chameli Devi Award for outstanding journalism and Femina Woman of Substance Award, both in 1993. She served as a member of the NR Narayana Murthy committee on corporate governance in 2003, was a member of the primary market advisory committee of SEBI and a member of Investor Education and Protection Fund of the Government of India.

She was also a trustee of the Ahmedabad-based Consumer Research and Education Centre. She has co-authored the best-selling book The Scam: From Harshad Mehta to Ketan Parekh; AD Shroff: A Titan of Fianance and Pathbreakers 1&2. Based on her outstanding investigative journalism spanning two decades, she was awarded the Padma Shri in 2006.

She directs the current news and socially-oriented reporting at Moneylife, the Foundation’s activities and grievance redressal activities.