Sohel Manzur, Chairman: Specialized in financial and business reporting in more than one and a half decades of his career in journalism. The main areas of his reporting were banking and financial sector, macroeconomy and capital market. However, due to his special interest in trade and WTO issues, he was able to attain considerable expertise in this particular field. He covered four of the seven WTO ministerial conferences and participated in a training workshop in Geneva on trade and WTO issues organized jointly by the World Trade Organization and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in 2004. He also attended similar workshops in Brussels (organized by DG, Trade, European Commission and the European Journalism Centre) in 2001 and in Islamabad (organized by SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry) in 2005. He also covered the 2001 LDC conference in Brussels and the 2003 annual general meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Dubai. He won two awards for in-depth reporting on microcredit and financial sector reforms in Bangladesh. He led the reporting team of Bangladesh’s lone business daily, The Financial Express, as Chief Reporter for two and a half years. He has considerable experience in newspaper and news agency management, as he was also the Deputy Managing Editor of The Financial Express and the Managing Editor of BDNEWS, a private news agency which later turned into an online newspaper following change in ownership. He had experiences of working in the development field as consultant throughout his career as a journalist. His full-time career as a development practitioner started in July 2006 when he joined Katalyst, a multi-donor funding initiative run by Swisscontact and GTZ-IS, as Media Consultant. He left Katalyst in March 2009 and founded CMCS.

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