Saabira Chaudhuri

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​I am an independent writer and researcher with nearly two decades of experience covering the world's largest companies across consumer goods and banking, as well as writing about development efforts in emerging markets. Much of my work over the past few years has focused on how better policy measures can lighten the environmental impact of how we live, particularly when it comes to single-use plastic.  

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My book, Consumed - How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, published in the UK in May and will be available in the US on September 23rd. Consumed is a deeply-reported, and highly colorful, narrative non-fiction investigation of the global plastic crisis through a corporate lens, lifting the lid on why decades of promised "solutions" by the world's biggest consumer goods companies have failed. It's been long-listed for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 award.

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I spent 12 years as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal in London and New York, stepping down in May 2025. Before that I worked on staff for Dow Jones newswires, Forbes, Mint and Fast Company. 

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I was awarded the Wall Street Journal's Asia fellowship to New York University where I earned an MA in Business and Economic Reporting. I got my BA in sociology from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and, despite persistent homesickness, stuck around long enough to graduate Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. I spent a year as a general course student studying law and sociology at the London School of Economics. 

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I currently live in London with my husband, kids and dog. I'm originally from Bangalore and return there frequently.

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