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Want to book Ritula Shah for your next event?
Email ritula.shah@getapeptalk.com, and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Please note: we can only assist with speaking requests. For anything else, we recommend reaching out to Ritula Shah directly.
What topics does Ritula Shah specialise in?
Ritula Shah specialises in talking about international affairs, media and broadcasting, arts and culture and more.
What is Ritula Shah's speaking style like?
Ritula Shah delivers insightful discussions with a calm, authoritative style, drawing on her extensive experience in journalism and broadcasting to engage audiences on pressing global issues. AI summary based on real event feedback.
Does Ritula Shah offer virtual speaking engagements?
Yes, Ritula Shah offers virtual speaker bookings for webinars, online conferences, and remote or distributed team engagements.
Most of the time we can’t even agree on the facts so what is the point of reading the news? When major events erupt at home or abroad, how do we try to understand them? From climate change to conflict, who or what do we believe? There’s plenty of evidence to indicate trust in news is falling and a significant section of the audience is actively avoiding it, either some of the time or all of it. Conspiracy theories and misinformation are corroding our open democratic societies. Ritula Shah makes a case for actively engaging with the news, for sifting facts from opinion and for trying to find the truth.
A short, brown woman who didn’t smoke: Ritula Shah was a minority when she started working in media and journalism at the end of the 1980s. Her parents weren’t graduates; she couldn’t ski and hadn’t had the benefit of a gap year. But after more than three decades at the BBC, she ended her career as the lead presenter of a prestigious daily radio news programme. How do you gain acceptance when your face or class doesn’t fit the culture of your industry? Why do so many of us suffer from imposter syndrome, and how do you get over it? Personal growth can come from sharing success - Ritula Shah draws on her experience to chart a path for transformation. Accept who you are and focus on who you want to become.
The age of the unipolar world - when the US had no significant rivals - is over. That brief span of around two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union and while China was rising, has given way to one in which China presents a formidable military, economic and technological challenge and Russia is dangerously unpredictable. Throw into that mix the financial muscle being exercised by countries in the Arab world, can a rules-based system survive and who gets to make and police them?
