Shikha Dalmia is president of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism and editor of The UnPopulist. Previously, she was a senior analyst at Reason Foundation and visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center.
Dalmia was a columnist at The Week, and
Dalmia was co-winner of the first 2009 Bastiat Prize for online journalism for her columns in Forbes and Reason.
From 1996 to 2004, Dalmia was as an award-winning editorial writer at the Detroit News, covering a variety of policy issues, including the environment, immigration, Social Security, welfare reform, health care and foreign policy. She also worked as a reporter for the Patriot, a national daily newspaper based in New Delhi, India, where she grew up and earned her B.S. degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Delhi.
Dalmia frequently appears on Fox Business Network, BBC Business Matters, MSNBC and other television and radio outlets.
She lives in metro Detroit.