Dia Sudeshna Chakravarty (Bengali: দিয়া সুদেষ্ণা চক্রবর্তী; born 1984) is a Bangladeshi-born British political activist, former political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, singer, and Brexit Editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Chakravarty was born in Bangladesh to parents of two different faiths.^[1] Her Muslim mother, Sultana Kamal, is a lawyer and human rights activist who runs a legal aid organisation in Bangladesh. Her Hindu father, Supriyo Chakravarty, is also a lawyer.^[2] Her parents both decided to keep their respective religions after marriage.^[1] She is her parents' only child.^[2] Her maternal grandmother is poet Sufia Kamal.^[3]

Because of Chakravarty's parents' and grandparents' activism and anti-fundamentalist stance, her family have been under threat on and off her whole life. She has grown up with threatening telephone calls and her home has been firebombed twice.^[1]

Chakravarty attended a school in Sylhet her parents set up which taught the British Council-regulated O-level curriculum and examination syllabus. The school took students up to the age of 14, after which her schooling was mostly tutorial-based.^[2] Later, she entered the mainstream education system to continue with her O-levels.^[1] She achieved seven O-levels.^[2]

She then got a partial scholarship^[1] to sixth-form college in Oxford, to board and sit her A-levels,^[2] after her parents remortgaged their family home, she left for the UK^[1] in 2001.^[3] Her lawyer mother, who had spent most of her life doing voluntary work until then, moved to Dhaka, to take up a full-time job.^[1] Chakravarty read Law at the University of Oxford^[2] and became a barrister in 2008.^[3]

Chakravarty started her career as a tax consultant in London before moving into communication and public affairs.^[2] From July 2012 to December 2013, she was a deputy director at The Freedom Association where she advocated for freedom of the press, free speech, and freedom of expression.^[2][4] In January 2014, she was appointed political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance.^[2][5]

Chakravarty moved into communications and public affairs.^[6] She worked for Banking on Change, a global partnership between Barclays Bank and two international charities seeking to extend access to basic financial services through savings-led microfinance.^[7]

In August 2014, Chakravarty appeared on BBC Two's Newsnight, discussing consultancy culture in the public sector.^[8] In November 2014^[9] and March 2015,^[10][11] and October 2016,^[12] she appeared on BBC One's Question Time. In January 2015, she contributed on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions?^[13]

In July 2017, Chakravarty, a prominent Leave campaigner during the UK EU membership Referendum campaign, was appointed Brexit Editor of The Daily Telegraph.^{[6][7][14][15]}

In September 2017, Chakravarty appeared on Question Time.^[16] In October, Chakravarty appeared on Newsnight, discussing Brexit.^[17] In the same month, she was listed at Number 100 by commentator Iain Dale in his '100 Most Influential on the Right'.^[18]

Chakravarty took her first music lesson from Prateek Enda in Sylhet^[19] and had an early start in her musical training in Rabindranath Tagore songs.^[3] Although she specialises in Bengali music,^[2] since moving to the UK she has added Hindi songs to her repertoire.^[3] She now takes lessons from London-based singer-master Anuradha Roma Choudhury.^[19]

Chakravarty performs in London and abroad.^[2][3] In August 2014, her debut album A Bloom in Vain and Other Songs was released.^[3][19][20]

In October 2007, Chakravarty married Duncan Hall. She met her husband while at school and decided to settle in England after completing her university and Bar examinations.^[2] Chakravarty is also involved with Udayan, a Bengali cultural group.^[3]