Sumana Sarkar

Sumana Sarkar is Financial Express Digital’s Mumbai Bureau Chief and Editor- Markets. With over 22 years of experience as a business journalist, she also handles Corporate, Economic, Defence and B2B Mobility segments. Her experience covers TV, print and digital media and she has been with Financial Express Online since 2022.

In her current role she oversees day-to-day market coverage, planning and executing the top trending corporate stories and economic trend of the day along with interviewing industry leaders and leading market commentators. She also tracks the latest development in in B2B mobility sector along with analysis and trends in the segment.

Sumana specializes in:
-Financial issues
-Sustainability, climate change
-Economic trends
-Gender issues in corporate world
-Alternate fuel including EVs, hydrogen fuel-cell content
-Pollution and vehicle safety

In the past two decades, Sumana has written over 5000 news pieces, single-handedly published bi-weekly magazine and produced well over 200 TV shows including documentaries and live shows.

Before joining Financial Express, Sumana has spent 4 years with Autocar Professional handling content for both the fortnightly magazine as the website. She has written extensively on key climate and alternate fuel issues apart from interviewing marquee names in the auto world and ideating for the magazine’s special issues.

Sumana headed the market desk in CNBC-TV18 and was responsible for some of its flagship shows including Power Breakfast, Business Lunch, Classroom and Taking Stocks. She was responsible for the market band programming on CNBC-TV18.

She started her career with the Current Affairs News Desk of ETV (Now News18) and simultaneously reported for 11 vernacular channels.

When not scribbling news, Sumana is a food blogger and established Odissi Dancer (Recipient of Maharashtra Governor’s Award) and is passionate about poetry and photography.