Dia Chakravarty
contributing editor, Daily Telegraph

Dia Chakravarty is a columnist and contributing editor at the Telegraph. She joined the paper as its first and only Brexit Editor in 2017, also writing a column for the Sunday Telegraph. She then moved on to write the Telegraph’s Waste Watch series, a bi-weekly column on public spending for the Daily Telegraph website. Dia is an experienced media commentator, regularly appearing on flagship politics shows in UK television and radio, including BBC’s Question Time, Newsnight and Papers as well as Sky News’s Paper Review.

Prior to joining the Telegraph, Dia worked as the political director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, where she was in charge of running the pressure group’s media operation. Dia is a singer. She specialises in Bengali music and has published two critically-acclaimed solo albums.

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She can be reached at wastewatch@telegraph.co.uk

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