Ritu Sarin

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption.

Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers and the Uber Files. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialization on collaborative journalism in several countries.

She is the author of two books, the last being one on the Panama Papers investigation in India, published in 2019.

Sarin has been recipient of the 2007 Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year award. In 2011, she received the Prem Bhatia award for best investigative journalist and in 2017 she along with members of The Indian Express team received the Ramnath Goenka award for investigative journalism for the Panama Papers. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious International Press Institute (IPI-India) award for excellence in journalism, to be followed in 2019 by the Red Ink award of the Mumbai Press Club for the Implant Files investigation.