Shaili Chopra

Shaili Chopra
Born 21 July 1981
Jalandhar
Other names Shaili Chopra
Education Master in Broadcast and television
Occupation News anchor of ET Now


Shaili Chopra is an Indian business journalist with nearly twelve years of experience in television anchoring, reporting and writing columns. She was the Business Editor for Tehelka[1] and writes a popular golf column Tee Off With Shaili Chopra for the DNA. Until September 2012, Shaili was the Senior Editor and Lead Female Anchor at ET Now, the Economic Times Business News Channel. Shaili anchored the primetime shows and interviewed the likes of Warren Buffett, George Soros, Anshu Jain, P Chidambaram, Christine Lagarde and many others.

Biography

Shaili Chopra was born in Jalandhar on 21 July 1981 in Punjab to Anil & Suman Chopra. Father Air Marshal Anil Chopra is a retired fighter pilot from Indian Air Force. In 1998, Shaili finished her schooling from Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute,New Delhi. Shaili finished her master's degree in Broadcast and Television from 2002 batch, The Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Her writings and poetry are also published in Times of India, Indian Express, Pioneer, among various other magazines and websites like The South Asian Women's Forum and even an anti war news blog.[2]

Professional life

Shaili Chopra was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism at the Indian Express RNG Awards 2012.

Shaili worked with NDTV 24 x 7 as Markets & Corporate Affairs Editor and NDTV Profit as the Senior News Editor-Corporate for over 5 years and then with ET NOW. She won the News Television Award for the Best English Reporter across India in 2007[3] and later in 2008, her business-golf show Business on Course, won the Best Show Award.[4] In March 2010, Shaili Chopra won the Best Business Anchor award and was felicitated with FICCI's Woman Achiever Award.[5] Shaili has also covered international events like the G-20, WEF@Davos, The Bretton Woods conference 2011, India Economic Summit and the World Retail Congress. Shaili's interviews include Warren Buffett, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Blackrock's chairman Larry Fink, Deutsche Bank's Anshu Jain, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Standard Chartered's Asia Chief Jaspal Bindra, ICICI's KV Kamath, HDFC's Deepak Parekh, New Vernon's Arshad Zakaria, Soc Gen's Global Private Banking Head Daniel Truchi, Citibank's Former India Chief & KKR CEO Sanjay Nayar, Citi's India Head of Global Banking Pramit Jhaveri, Morgan Stanley's India MD Aisha De Sequeira, other famous Indian bankers like Uday Kotak, Nimesh Kampani, Hemendra Kothari.Global corporate faces like Rothchild's Lady Lynn, Ikea's Anders Dahlvig, WEF's Klaus Schwab, Anand Mahindra, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Rahul Bajaj, Sunil Mittal and many others.

Among policy makers ministers like Kamal Nath, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, Aviation Minister Praful Patel and the Finance Minister and Trade Ministers of Netherlands, France and Australia.

Shaili Chopra and her husband Shivnath Thukral also reported live from outside the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai during the terror attacks of 26/11.[6]

Programs

NDTV Profit (2004–2009)

Specials

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Editorial Team at Tehelka
  2. ↑ "Sawf.org". Sawf.org. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "CNN-IBN, NDTV India win 9 out of 47 at the Indian News Television Awards, CNN-IBN wins best English news channel, Rajdeep Sardesai Newsmaker of the year, Prannoy Roy lifetime achievement, Barkha Dutt best TV news anchor". Dancewithshadows.com. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Archived 11 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Nitesh Estates launches 'Nitesh Long Island' at Bangalore". Indiainfoline.com. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "TV's hits and misses of terror attacks". Hindustan Times. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
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