Taha Siddiqui is a Pakistani-born journalist based in Paris.

[3] Calling himself an "accidental journalist", he entered the news industry as a financial analyst for CNBC.

Two years later, he won the Albert Londres Prize, alongside Julien Fouchet and Sylvain Lepetit, for The Polio War, a documentary on the challenges facing polio eradication efforts in Pakistan.

[5][6] In January 2018, in Islamabad, gunmen tried to abduct Siddiqui, but he managed to escape.

In a Washington Post opinion article, Siddiqui stated that a US intelligence agency informed him of plans by the Pakistani military to assassinate him if he ever returned.