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Shereen Bhan (born 20 August 1976) is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the

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. Shereen took over as managing editor of CNBC-TV18 from 1 September 2013 after Udayan Mukherjee decided to step aside.

Personal

Shereen was born into a

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family of the Bhan clan. She did her schooling at

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and also at Air Force Bal Bharati school (A.F.B.B.S) Lodhi Road,

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. Bhan graduated from

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with a degree in

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and a master's in

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from the

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, with film and television as her area of specialization.

Career

Shereen Bhan has an experience of 20 years, 14 of which were spent in tracking corporate, policy news and events that defined the business landscape in India. She began her career working as a news-researcher for

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in his production house Infotainment Television. She joined UTV's News and Current Affairs division and produced shows like ''

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. She joined

in December 2000. She has been responsible for breaking a range of news stories that have redefined the Indian economic landscape in recent times and has also interviewed some of the biggest names in business and politics, both domestic and global. Shereen is also the Anchor & Editor of ''Young Turks'', one of India's longest running shows on entrepreneurs – a section that over the last 13 years has successfully built a niche category in business news programming. She hosts ''Overdrive'', which won the News Television Award for the 'Best Auto Show' for three consecutive years. She heads the channel's special feature programming that carries several pioneering shows such as ''

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'' and ''What Women Really Want''. Over the course of her 14-year tryst with business journalism, Shereen has been the recipient of the 'Best Business Talk Show' award at the News Television awards for two years consecutively. She also won the 'FICCI Woman of the Year' award for her contribution to the Media in 2005, and was named a 'Young Global Leader' by the World Economic Forum. She won the ‘Best Business Anchor Award’ at the ‘News Television Awards’ in 2013. Bhan anchors and produces several shows like ''Young Turks'', ''India Business Hour'', ''The Nation's Business'' and ''Power Turks''. She also anchors and puts together CNBC-TV18's ground events like the Managing India brainstorm and the

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Industry Vectors.

Awards

#In April 2005, she was awarded the

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Woman of the Year award. #Women's magazine '' Femina'' included her among the 20 Beautiful Faces of the year in its September 2005 issue. #She was featured on the cover of ''Verve'' magazine's December 2008 issue #Shereen figured among the 50 most Beautiful Women in the ''

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'' October 2008 issue. #In 2009, the

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named her as one of the Young Global Leaders of 2009.World Economic Forum, Young Global leaders of 2009
#In 2021, Best News Presenter or Anchor, India Business Hour, 26th

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(Nominated)

References

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