Somesh Jha is a business journalist who has reported on government policy and economy for prominent national & international publications in the past nine years. Jha was recently an Alfred Friendly-OCCRP fellow who worked for the LA Times in the United States for 3 months, reporting on the global economy and cryptocurrency. He has covered a range of subjects in the past, including public finance, banking, labour, transportation, and aviation, for Business Standard, The Hindu, BloombergQuint, Al-Jazeera, and The Caravan.