# Mahfuz Sadique

Mahfuz Sadique (01 February 1981 – 29 December 2023 ) is a Bangladeshi born British Citizen who lately became a renowned journalist.

## Education

He passed his SSC from St. Joseph Higher Secondary School in 1998 and HSC from Notre Dame College in 2000. Later, he joined North South University and completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration majoring in International Business. Later he progressed to his master’s degree in public policy from King’s College London. He continued his interest in digital futures by pursuing research in part-time doctoral studies at SOAS University of London.

## Debating Career

Mahfuz Sadique was a veteran debater from Bangladesh. During his school life he was the president of St. Joseph Debating Club. Later he participated in Bangladesh debate fraternity from Notre Dame debating club Team one. Furthermore, while he was in North South University he was also the president of North South University Debating club. He participated in World Universities’ Debating Championships representing North South University (Glasgow ’01; Toronto ’02; Stellenbosch-South Africa’03). His team became the first runner’s up at world’s debate championship in 2002 which was the first ever for Bangladesh. On the individual round, he placed on the 8th position on the global rankings.

## Professional Life

He started his career in Bangladesh as a Senior Staff Correspondent at Dhaka-based New Age and SLATE magazine of The Daily Star. Later, he was a manager in corporate affairs at Citibank N.A. dealing with both compliance and external affairs.
Mahfuz Sadique joined the BBC news in 2007 as a Newsgathering Correspondent. Later he was promoted to Senior Journalist. Mahfuz, through his journalism for BBC News has covered some of the major global stories in recent years. That includes the Rana Plaza collapse, war crimes trials, Bangladeshi activists clash with police at polls protest the rise of Isis, Arab Uprisings as well as numerous general elections and referendums ranging from Brexit to Bangladesh. He was also an Equality Officer of the BBC London branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Before that Mr. Sadique worked in various capacities with other global media organizations, including The New Internationalist, International Herald Tribune (NY Times Co.), Bistandsaktuelt Norway and Himal South Asian.
Later he came back to Bangladesh in 2021 and joined bKash as the Chief Communications Officer.

## Recognition

Mr. Sadique was nominated as a life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2018. He was a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Media and Communications, and guest lectured on media and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has also worked as a research consultant for the British government-funded ACE Research Consortium, and The Open University UK. He was a Trustee of Camden Giving, a charity working to overcome inequality in London. He has chaired panels in conferences at the universities of Harvard and Yale. Even with a full-time journalism career, Mahfuz taught postgraduate courses on media and development at SOAS University of London and led a research project on Media and Anti-Corruption as a Research Associate at the SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications.

## Personal life

Mahfuz was born on 1 February 1981 in Dhaka. Mahfuz Sadique, has been married to Maliha Muzammil since January 2012. His only son, Ishaan Sadique, was born in April 2013. His father, Abdul Hakim was a nanotechnology scientist, former director of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and former Faculty at BUET. His mother Mahfuza Begum was a school teacher. Mahfuz Sadique has another young sister.