Sheelah Kolhatkar, a former hedge fund analyst, is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes magazine stories about business, technology and national politics, among other things. She has also written the magazine's Financial Page column, hosted the public television program "Playing By The Rules," about ethics in the business world and contributed to CNN’s global affairs program Amanpour & Co. She is the author of the bestseller Black Edge, about the largest insider trading investigation in history and the transformation of the U.S. economy and justice system, which was named a Top Book of 2017 by The New York Times. She was recently named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

She has appeared as a commentator on political and economic issues on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and has consulted on scripted and non-scripted film and streaming projects. She has moderated panels and conducted interviews at numerous live events, including the New Yorker Festival, the United Nations, Advertising Week and the Business for Social Responsibility Conference. Her work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time and other publications. 

Before becoming a journalist, she spent several years as a risk arbitrage analyst at two hedge funds in New York City. Sheelah holds an undergraduate degree from New York University and a M.A. from Stanford University. She lives in New York.