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Reshmin Chowdhury
রেশমিন চৌধুরী
Born (1977-12-16) 16 December 1977 (age 47)
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBSc Politics with Economics, NCTJ Newspaper Journalism
Alma materUniversity of Bath
Occupation(s)Sports journalist, broadcaster, singer
Years active1998–present
Children2

Reshmin Chowdhury (Template:Lang-bn; born 16 December 1977) is a multi-lingual English sports journalist, broadcaster and event host. She is part of the presentation and reporting team at BBC Sport and a lead reporter for BT Sport’s exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League.

Early life

Chowdhury was born and brought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin. Chowdhury described her childhood as growing up "in an extremely open-minded, progressive Bengali Muslim family and within a huge second-generation community where education, culture, religion and music were the cornerstones of my upbringing."

Chowdhury attended Woodford County High School for Girls. She graduated with a 2.1 BSc (Hons) in Politics with Economics from the University of Bath. She later studied for an NCTJ Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism.

Broadcasting career

Whilst studying for her degree, Chowdhury spent her placement year as a television news helpdesk operator at Reuters TV News. She joined Princess Productions after graduating and was part of the original team that travelled to Borneo for the ITV1 programme Survivor, before working as UK Editor for the global online events guide whatsonwhen.com. In late 2003, she was offered a job travelling around the world producing specialist business reports for international print media, interviewing heads of states, politicians and business figures. Her work took her as far afield as Madagascar, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Maldives and Nigeria.

In 2005, Chowdhury moved to television news and joined ITN as a news assistant and then producer, before moving to BBC London, BBC News and Bloomberg Television.

From September 2008, she spent two seasons as a presenter and reporter with Real Madrid TV. She was the first journalist to interview Cristiano Ronaldo following his world-record signing for Real Madrid. She also secured the world exclusive with Karim Benzema who she interviewed in French. Her work included match day reporting, post-match interviews, travelling with the team, news presenting, as well as producing and presenting shows such as RealMadrid Life and Top Goals.

In May 2010, Chowdhury left Madrid and joined the BBC Sport News team. She broadcasts as a sports presenter for the BBC News Channel in the UK and BBC World, the latter for whom she worked for throughout the London 2012 Olympics.

In August 2014, Chowdhury joined the BT Sport team as presenter of their nightly news round-up show SportsHUB. From September 2015, Chowdhury became a reporter on BT Sport's exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. In August 2017, she co-presented the draw for the group stage of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League in Monaco.

In August 2015, Chowdhury was on the judging panel for The Independent's 50 most influential women in sport.

Singing career

Chowdhury is also a vocalist. She has worked alongside musician Nitin Sawhney. She performed in the UK touring theatre production of The Mahabharata and recorded vocals on the 2006 film The Namesake.

Awards and nominations

In November 2013, Chowdhury was nominated for the Media Award sponsored by fc business magazine at the Asian Football Awards. In November 2015, she won the Media Award at the Asian Football Awards.

Personal life

Chowdhury is a Muslim, and lives in London with her husband and two children and is a Tottenham Hotspur Football Club fan. She is fluent in English and Bengali, and also speaks Spanish and French.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "BBC and BT Sport Presenter Reshmin Chowdhury". Asian Voice. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  6. ^ "The 50 most influential women in sport: The job of navigating the nominations goes to..." The Independent. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. "Bangladeshi origin journo hosts UCL draw". Dhaka: Dhaka Tribune. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. "Asian Football Awards 2013 – Launch Reception". Bigday Photography. Retrieved 1 March 2014. Reshmin Chowdhury
  9. "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Asian Image . 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. Ganatra, Rupen (20 November 2015). "The Asian Football Awards 2015 Winners". DESIblitz. Retrieved 1 April 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Bradford: Telegraph & Argus. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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