Poonam Agarwal is an Emmy-nominated journalist who has been covering Indian society and politics for two decades. She is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award; BBC News Award for outstanding original investigative journalism; Best Investigative Journalist at The News Television Awards; the CNN Young Journalist Award, among others. Her investigative documentary on loan app scam with the BBC World Service titled 'The Trap: India's Deadliest Scam' has received wide and critical acclaim. She has also written for the Global Investigative Journalist Network and delivered the prestigious Gavin MacFayden Memorial lecture at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London in 2024.

Poonam started her career as a TV journalist in 2005 with NDTV. Subsequently, she worked with Times Now and was later the National Editor of Investigations at The Quint. Her award-winning work on elections and electoral bonds made history in helping the Indian Supreme Court deliver a judgement that struck down the Electoral Bonds Scheme. She tweets on X as @poonamjourno