Subhra Priyadarshini is an award winning science and environment journalist currently running Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) India operation Nature India.
A journalist for close to two decades, Subhra has covered politics, sports, fashion, films, crime, health, education and natural disasters in the mainstream Indian media for over a dozen years. She chose to come back to her first love – science – in 2007 launching Nature India. As the Editor of Nature India, Subhra heads all its online and print supplements. Subhra has been a correspondent with major Indian dailies The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, India’s premier news agency Press Trust of India and the fortnightly magazine Down To Earth. She worked briefly for the Observer, London.
Subhra received the BBC World Service Trust award for her coverage of the ‘Vanishing Islands of Sunderbans’ in the Bay of Bengal in 2006. She bagged the PANOS South Asia Climate Change Media Excellence Award  2012-13 for her coverage of climate change issues in the region. She received commendation letters from the Press Trust of India for her coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami & Odisha Super cyclone. 

Subhra has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships including the British Chevening Fellowship, The United Nations University Fellowship, the IREX Fellowship for the UNESCO Global Forum on Media & Gender, the National Press Foundation Fellowship for Lung Health training, the Panos SACCA Media Fellowship and two Robert Bosch Fellowships. 

She speaks extensively on science communication, environment, gender and climate change in global fora.