Ritula Shah (chair)

Ritula Shah is a journalist and broadcaster who spent more than three decades producing and presenting news programmes at the BBC. She was the main presenter of the World Tonight, Radio 4’s evening news programme until April 2023. Ritula currently presents ‘Calm Classics’ on ClassicFM.

She is a Fellow of the London Centre for the Humanities and a judge for the British Academy’s Prize for Cultural Understanding.