Shailesh Shrivastava

Shailesh Shrivastava is a Senior Editor at Mongabay India. A journalist since 2007, Shailesh was most recently the Editor of award-winning IndiaSpend, a public interest journalism outfit which uses data to write and syndicate stories in areas like health, education and the environment. Before that, he was the Managing Editor at news agency 101Reporters, where he managed a pan-India network of reporters and national and international publishers. He has worked as an Assistant Editor at the International Business Times and anchored desk operations in Bangalore bureaus of Deccan Chronicle, Daily News & Analysis, and The New Indian Express. As an editor, Shailesh is keenly interested in development journalism and politics.