Anusha Shrivastava

Anusha Shrivastava is the associate dean of career development at Columbia Journalism School. In this role, which she has had since 2022, she leads and manages the team that organizes the largest journalism career expo in the country and trains students for their professional lives. Prior to this role, she was the director of alumni relations at Columbia Journalism School. This is her second stint at CJS, which she originally joined in 2013.

Shrivastava served as a lecturer for Columbia University’s Department of Statistics, where she was head of career development and alumni relations for six years. While there, she taught a course on professional development, covering topics including digital presence, negotiation, and mentoring. 

Before she transitioned into higher education, Shrivastava spent over 20 years as a business reporter on television, in print, and newswires in the U.S., Canada, and India. Most recently, she was at The Wall Street Journal in New York, where she covered global foreign exchange and credit markets. Her specialties included asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, commercial paper, money market funds, corporate bonds, and the Federal Reserve. 

Shrivastava was also an on-air reporter for BBC World's 'India Business Report” in New Delhi and the web editor at The Globe and Mail in Toronto. She has worked at the Associated Press in New York, The Hartford Business Journal in Hartford, Conn., and The Republican American in Waterbury, Conn.

Shrivastava holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Hindu College at the University of Delhi, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.