Credits for Akhtar Khan

HOBBIES/ACTIVITIES

· Travel fanatic – 70 countries and counting.

· Sports - extreme sports enthusiast (white water rafting, bungee jumping at 134m in New Zealand, skydiving,

glacier walk), polo (horses) and ski.

· Keep fit enthusiast (6 x week)

· Lifestyle commentator: fashion, architecture, property, interior design and car enthusiast.

· Ambassador, ‘The Princes Trust’

Jan 2009

to date

Presenter, National Bonds Show, Dubai One TV (Dubai, UAE)

Live, monthly, business/factual entertainment show

Aug 2008

to date

Presenter, Dubai Today, Arabian Radio Network (Dubai, UAE)

3-hour, live, daily talk current affairs/news show (phone-ins) discussing local, regional and intl’ issues.

Jan ’07

to date

AKTV (TV production company)

Production of travel and lifestyle programmes.

Jan ‘07

to Aug ‘03

Presenter, Fast Track, BBC World, News 24 & BBC 1

Weekly magazine travel show looking at business and leisure travel.

Jun ‘05

to date

Presenter & Correspondent ITN News (London Today/GMTV)

News presenter/correspondent (freelance).

Mar ‘04

Presenter, BBC 5 Live (radio)

Up All Night’ (4-hour, daily overnight programme covering current affairs, features and entertainment).

Feb ‘03

to date

BBC News 24 (BBC’s domestic cable/satellite news channel)

Presenter & Correspondent (freelance)

Aug ‘02

to Aug ‘03

Presenter, BBC Asian Network (radio)

‘Take 2’ - own, weekend movie entertainment show. Co-host ‘Drivetime’ and ‘Breakfast’.

Mar ‘02

Presenter - City Hospital, BBC1 (daytime)

‘LIVE’, daily daytime show

1999 to

2002

Arts/Entertainment Correspondent & Royal Corr’, News Producer/Corr, Sky News. Responsible for covering the harder entertainment/arts news stories, from celebrity court cases to the business of music/film industry (EMI) and presenting live from Academy Awards and Golden Globes to film junkets (Tom Cruise,Madonna, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp...plus many more) and red carpet events. Also acted as producer during the war in Afghanistan (based in Pakistan / Afghanistan for 7 weeks).

1998 to

1999

Film reviewer – Pearson/Thames Talkback TV (film show)

‘U’ Direct Film Channel (art house movies)

1995 to

1998

Business Correspondent (Entertainment) – CNBC Europe

Single-handedly created entertainment show from scratch on a shoe-string budget from LA and New York.

I've covered every genre from news/current affairs to business and from entertainment to lifestyle and factual entertainment.
I'm just as comfortable interviewing Hollywood celebrities as I am being a travel journalist but I have a real passion for all things to do with 'lifestyle' especially where I can use the 'grey matter'.