Background and Age

Reeta Chakrabarti was born on December 12, 1964, in Ealing, London. She was raised in an Indian Bengali family. She was the eldest child out of her group of sisters. Her father worked at a radio station and her mother was a teacher.

Reeta attended the Calcutta International School in Kolkata. She has a degree in English and French from Exeter College, Oxford, where she graduated in 1988. She also spent a year in France while a student.

Marriage, Husband, and Kids

Reeta Chakrabarti is happily married. She has given birth to three children during her marriage.

Career and Net Worth

In 1994, Reeta Chakrabarti became a reporter for the Breakfast Program on the newly launched BBC Radio 5 Live. Later she became a general news correspondent working on television and radio. After working on the radio for a very long time period, she later shifted herself to the television industry. It was a great change for her because the stories she covered included big issues and events that made her famous and increased her popularity in the news field.

In 1997, Chakrabarti became the BBC Community Affairs correspondent. She was also found working on Home Affairs. At the end of 1999, Chakrabarti secured her role as a political correspondent for the BBC, reporting on politics for BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. She went through 10 years at Westminster and provided coverage of three General Elections.

In 2010, she became the Education Correspondent for BBC News and covered the trebling of college education costs in England, and the presentation of free schools. In May 2014, she was appointed as a news presenter and reporter on BBC One. During her career, she covered a scope of universal stories, including taking a gander at the issues of fetus removal in Chile and in Poland, the ascent of female administrators in India, the dealing of young ladies from Albania, the transient emergency in Europe, and the predicament of the Rohingya individuals in Bangladesh. She also reported on the 70th commemoration of autonomy in India and Pakistan.

Beyond her work on television news, Reeta has also chaired and hosted corporate events, including the 2003 and 2004 Educational Television Awards Dinners for the Royal Television Society. Chakrabarti is a Patron of Pan Intercultural Arts, a UK charity that uses the arts to empower marginalized young people and unlock their potential. Her philanthropic interests include patronage of the Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS charity focusing on minority groups affected by the disease, and of the National Mentoring Consortium, linking ethnic minority undergraduates with employers in the public and private sectors.

When asked about a woman who inspired her, Reeta referenced a quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn¹t have the weight of gender expectations."