Queenie Shaikh
Queenie joined Insurance Day in 2023 from Atalanta, a global public affairs agency.
Before that she held travel journalism roles at The Culture Trip and Contiki, and wrote social commentary, specialising in South Asian affairs at Huffington Post.
Queenie graduated from the University of Buckingham with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications, media and journalism, and studied creative writing at the University of Oxford.
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