Zafar Sobhan
Zafar Sobhan | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Alma mater | Pomona College University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Editor, columnist |
| Parent(s) | Rehman Sobhan (father) Salma Sobhan (mother) |
Zafar Sobhan is a Bangladeshi editor and columnist.
Education and career[]
Sobhan is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Dhaka Tribune. He was previously the Op-ed editor of The Daily Star and the head of Forum magazine from 2004 to 2010. He has been a columnist with The Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, Time and Outlook.[1] In 2005, he was named by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and was a Yale World Fellow in 2009.[2][3]
Sobhan is the son of economist and freedom fighter Rehman Sobhan and barrister Salma Sobhan. He studied at Pomona College in the US and the University of British Columbia in Canada. He also worked as a corporate attorney in Manhattan and a New York City public school teacher.[4]
References[]
- ^ http://worldfellows.yale.edu/zafar-sobhan
- ^ http://www.sunday-guardian.com/profile/zafar-sobhan
- ^ http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/zafar-sobhan
- ^ "Profile: Zafar Sobhan". worldfellows.yale.edu. Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, Yale University. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
Categories:
- Bangladeshi journalists
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Pomona College alumni
- Pepperdine University alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Living people
- Bangladeshi newspaper editors
- 20th-century Bengalis
- 21st-century Bengalis