Tasmin Lucia-Khan (born 18 July 1980) is a British

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and

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. In the UK, she is most known for being the face of

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'', hosting ''E24'' on

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, and fronting the morning news for

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show '' Daybreak''. She was appointed CEO of Hollywood film company WR Entertainment in 2016 and subsequently took the company public on the

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Merkur Market.

Early life

Born Farhana Tasmin Lucia-Khan in

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, she is of

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descent. Khan graduated from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

with an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics. At Oxford, she took up debating and nurtured her passion for international relations and current affairs. She studied Latin, economics and mathematics at A Level.

Media career

In 1999, Khan started her career at

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Network as an entertainment presenter and news reporter. She then hosted her own talk show interviewing celebrities from music and film, sports and politics. In 2001, she interviewed

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a few months after he completed his second term as

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. She worked as a radio presenter for the

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, covering programmes like the ''Breakfast Show'', ''Drive Time'' and ''The Album Chart''. She was on air when news of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami broke on

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in December 2004. She then worked for PTV Prime as London correspondent where she reported the UK's big news stories to a worldwide audience including the

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and the

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in 2006. Having produced and hosted her own sports show on Channel 5 for three years, she then landed the opportunity to present on

and

. One of her mentors was Kevin Bakhurst who was the Editor of the Ten O’Clock News on BBC, and moved on to be the Controller of BBC News. Bakhurst and Danny Cohen, then controller of BBC Three, offered her the job to be the face of the news bulletins on ''

'' on

, and be lead anchor of '' E24'' on

. In her years at the BBC, she covered several showbiz news stories, including the deaths of

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and

Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion ...

. She also covered the

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and

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divorce and the

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ceremony three years in a row. On 6 September 2010, she joined the

programme '' Daybreak'' after being headhunted from the BBC to be the sole news anchor covering all major world news stories as well as domestic, political and economic stories from the UK. She led the news teams through the

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, the uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria, and broke the news of the death of

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. She left ITV News and morning TV in 2012 to pursue other opportunities in America after 15 years on UK television. From 2013 onwards, she was on US television as NBC Extra's 'Special Correspondent' conducting celebrity interviews, and both entertainment and news stories ranging from the birth of the royal babies in the UK to red carpet coverage of major film premieres. In January 2016, she was appointed CEO of Film company WR Entertainment, a publicly-traded company that had acquired the motion-picture rights to all 83 books in the ''

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'' best selling book series which had sold over 20 million copies worldwide. In April 2016, she raised $3.5 million in working capital for the film company from the likes of Norwegian billionaires

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and Arne Blystad. The first movie from the

film franchise was planned to start filming in 2016, but no news of any production dates has been announced yet.

Other activities

Khan hosted the

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'Queens Baton Relay' at

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, alongside

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and the

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, to launch the baton on its journey to

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for the 2010 Games. She has hosted the annual ''BCA Gala Awards'' ceremony every year from 2007 to 2015. the ''Scottish Asian Business Awards'' in

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in 2008 and 2009; and presented the ''Basis Soft Expo 2009'' and an HIV/AIDS Conference in 2009, both in

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. In 2010 and 2011, she hosted the Spice Times Restaurant Awards. In May and June 2009, she was part of a delegation to

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, organised by the British Government's

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as part of their Counter Terrorism strategy. Khan is a keynote speaker on topics covering technology, media and advertising, and she spoke at the inaugural Periscope Summit in New York on 23 September 2015 on issues ranging from the impact of Periscope on both news organisations and user communities to highlighting the many positive uses of Periscope for charitable causes.

Awards, nominations and honours

Khan was nominated for the Young Achiever of the Year honour at the Asian Woman Awards for Excellence in 2008. Khan is an ambassador for the Prince of Wales' charity, the British Asian Trust, which has touched the lives of more than one million people in the poorest communities in South Asia. Khan was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Lloyds Banking Group in 2014 for her leadership of mobile advertising company AdMaxim and several other technology startups in the Silicon Valley.

Personal life

Khan now lives in Los Angeles, United States. She is married to cardiologist Dr Junaid Zaman.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucia-Khan, Tasmin 1980 births Living people English Muslims English people of Bangladeshi descent People educated at the City of London School for Girls Alumni of the University of Oxford British emigrants to the United States BBC newsreaders and journalists ITV Breakfast presenters and reporters