Shiv Malik

Shiv Malik       ( journalist,  author)
Born	March 1981
Alma mater	•  University of Leeds •  University of Sheffield
Journalist turned author turned futuristic urban planner  Chief Executive Officer In office 2 October 2025 - Present Employer ACDC Ltd  Chief Executive Officer In office January 2024 - Present Employer Pathaka AI Preceded by Shiv Malik  Chief Executive Officer In office May 2021 - January 2024 Employer Pool Foundation Succeeded by Shiv Malik  Head of Marketing at Streamr In office December 2017 - April 2021

Shiv Malik is a British author, communications professional, and former investigative journalist who worked for The Guardian for five years, breaking exclusive front-page stories on everything from UK austerity to secret ISIS documents. He is best known for having written "The Messenger" about Hassan Butt, the Manchester fraudster who pretended to be an international terrorist.

Shiv Malik is co-founder of

• The Intergenerational Foundation, a charitable UK-based think-tank set up in 2011,
• Pathaka AI, established in 2021 as personalised search and discovery for the age of A.I., and in 2025,
• Forest City 1, aiming to build Britain's first new city in 50 years

Malik also describes himself as an angel investor.

Journalist

Shiv Malik used to work with a now defunct team of investigative journalists at The Guardian, where he reported on matters such as terrorism and labour rights until 2016. He is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Intergenerational Foundation,.

Earlier in his career, Malik wrote for Prospect magazine, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday and others. He has also appeared on numerous media outlets, including BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News, discussing topics ranging from Islamic terrorism to social media companies. In 2008, he was part of a court case related to him refusing to hand over information on sources to a police investigation.

Together with journalist Ed Howker, Malik is co-author of the widely publicised 2010 book "Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth", on intergenerational socio-economic conflicts in Britain. The book was re-released with a new preface in 2013. The authors describe how Britons of the Millennial generation (defined as those born after 1979), have diminished opportunities for social mobility, home ownership and that they're burdened by reforms such as tuition fees.

“Jilted Generation” and its subject has brought forward Malik as a public speaker at numerous events and media interviews, during several years after its release. The book is also cited as having partially inspired playwright D.C. Moore to write the TV series "Not Safe For Work", for Channel 4.

Corporate communications

In 2017, Malik switched to work in corporate communications for blockchain and cryptocurrency projects.

In late 2017, Malik had been hired as Head of Communications for Streamr, a Swiss, formerly Finnish company.

Forest City

In October 2025, Shiv Malik formed the urban planning firm Albion City Development Corporation Ltd to build a new garden city on agricultural land east of Cambridge, between Newmarket and Haverhill in Suffolk.

Malik and Forest City co-founder Joseph Reeve propose building 400,000 homes across 45,000 acres, as well as setting aside 12,000 acres for a forest nature reserve.

Malik said the idea for the city had come about to help build new homes and grow the UK economy:

A.I. impression of Malik's Forest City

"You need growth, you need infrastructure and you need housing.

"The single best way we think to deliver all that, is actually to stop annoying people with infrastructure developments here there and everywhere and put it in one place where we can agglomerate those benefits massively and generate huge amounts of growth and underlying GDP."

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