Shereen Bhan: Driving innovation and excellence in journalism

Shereen Bhan is a renowned journalist and news anchor currently serving as the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18. Bhan took over the role on September 1, 2013, after Udayan Mukherjee stepped down. She began her career working as a news researcher for Karan Thapar in his production house Infotainment Television. She joined UTV's News and Current Affairs division and produced shows like We the People for Star TV and Line of Fire for SAB TV. She joined CNBC-TV18 on 7 December 2000.

Bhan 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.

Bhan is also the Anchor & Editor of Young Turks, one of India's longest-running shows on entrepreneurs. 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 Ministers of Change 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.

Born on August 20, 1976, to a Kashmiri Hindu family, Bhan did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kashmir and also at Air Force Bal Bharati School (A.F.B.B.S) Lodhi Road, New Delhi. She graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in Philosophy and a master's in Communication Studies from the University of Pune, with film and television as her area of specialisation.