Saabira Chaudhuri

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​I am an independent business journalist 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.

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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 (the business newspaper) and Fast Company. 

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I wrote my book, Consumed - How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, after several years of reporting for the Wall Street Journal on the struggles consumer goods companies were having in responding to the public's increasingly negative perception of plastics. Consumed, which was published by Bonnier in May 2025, is a narrative non-fiction investigation of the global plastics crisis through a corporate lens, lifting the lid on why decades of promised "solutions" by the world's biggest consumer goods companies have failed and why they will continue to fail unless we rewrite the rules by which business is done. It's been long-listed for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 award and described by Chris van Tulleken as "really, really funny."

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I grew up in Bangalore and later spent over a decade studying and working in the U.S. 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 my year abroad studying law and sociology at the London School of Economics. I was awarded the Wall Street Journal's fully-funded Asia fellowship to New York University where I earned an MA in Business and Economic Reporting.

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I now live in London with my husband, two children and our Greek dog, Suzy.

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