Shahnaz Pakravan
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Shahnaz Pakravan (Persian: شهناز پاکروان born c. 1957) is a former British radio and television presenter.
Education[]
Pakravan was educated at Moreton Hall School, a girls' independent boarding school in Oswestry, Shropshire, in England.
Broadcasting[]
Pakravan has worked for several leading news and current affairs channels:
- BBC TV
She was a news presenter on BBC World and BBC News 24. She also produced and presented Arab World Direct for BBC World.
- Channel Four
On Channel Four, she was the news anchor for the daily breakfast news and business programme Channel Four Daily. She was also the co-presenter of Channel 4 News, the channel's main evening prime-time bulletin.
- Dubai TV
Pakravan has been a familiar face in the Persian Gulf region from her work for BBC World, but has also worked for .
- BBC Radio
Her radio work included hosting BBC Radio Four's popular programme, Woman's Hour.
- Features
Science and technology: Pakravan was anchor and reporter on the well-known BBC programme Tomorrow's World. Health: she was anchor and presenter for the Channel Four programme Health Alert. Comedy: in 1990, she made a cameo appearance as a comedic actress, appearing as an 'Indian woman' in the hit sit-com Drop the Dead Donkey.
- Interviews
Arab World Direct, the programme Pakravan hosted, aired all over the Arab world - including Saudi Arabia - and had a special 9-11 edition, which featured an extended interview with Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki Al Saud, the former Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Other high-profile interviews include Jordan's King Abdullah and the new UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Property[]
Around 2007 she began to run the 200-year-old Bridge Hotel, in Helmsdale, Sutherland, on the east coast of Scotland.[citation needed]
She was the General Manager at the Capital Club Bahrain between 2012 and 2014.[1] [2]
Personal[]
Pakravan has two adult daughters from her first marriage.
References[]
- ^ "Capital Club Bahrain announces appointment of new General Manager", albawaba Business, 22 October 2012
- ^ "New GM for Capital Club Bahrain", Trade Arabia, 18 March 2014
External links[]
- 1950s births
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
- BBC World News
- British Muslims
- British people of Iranian descent
- ITN newsreaders and journalists
- Living people
- People educated at Moreton Hall School
- British radio people stubs
- British television biography stubs