Richa Goyal Sikri is a journalist and storyteller specialising in gemstones, diamonds and vintage and contemporary jewellery. She has a bachelor’s degree in commerce, a master’s degree in business administration and has completed several courses with the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) including ‘Colored Stone Grading’ and ‘Gem Identification’.

She spent the first 20 years of her career as executive director of STIC Travel Group, Asia’s leading travel and tourism organisation. In 2014, as a connoisseur of gems and jewellery, she began curating educational visits to mines and gem cutting centres globally for groups of aficionados seeking to better understand the journey of a gem from mine to market. Based on her experiences, Richa debuted her unique storytelling style on Instagram in 2017 garnering wide interest and engagement from the press and industry stakeholders.

Richa has pursued her second career in the gem and jewellery sector since 2018, delivering talks, projects, digital storytelling campaigns and articles for many notable organisations including the Art Science Museum in Singapore, the Asian Institute of Gemmological Studies (AIGS, Thailand), Buccellati, publications like ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Robb Report, India Today, Vogue, Fabergé, Gemfields, the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) of India, GemGenève (Geneva), the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the Global Congress of the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA), the Gem and Jewellery Association of Sri Lanka, the Natural Diamond Council, the World Emerald Symposium (Colombia), and the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO).

Richa lives with her husband and son in Singapore and experiences FOMO every time someone calls her from a gemstone mine.