Tanveer Ahmed (comedian)
Tanveer Ahmed (born 25 August 1974) is an Bangladeshi-Australian comedian, journalist, television personality and a doctor working as a psychiatrist.
[edit] Biography
Ahmed was born in Bangladesh but was raised in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. He won a scholarship to be educated at Sydney Grammar School and went on to Sydney University, where he studied medicine, graduating in 2000. He also had a stint writing for the university's Honi Soit magazine. He represented the Australian Medical Association as the national representative for training doctors in 2006-2007.[1]
He has also been a journalist for SBS TV, and appeared regularly on radio and television discussing issues pertaining to multiculturalism and mental health issues. He is also a regular contributor to the major newspapers, most commonly the Sydney Morning Herald. As a comedian, Ahmed was a dual state finalist during the Triple J Raw Comedy tournament and played the part of the Bingo Commissioner in the axed Channel Seven game show National Bingo Night. He also appeared in a television advertisement for Pataks Indian food.
Ahmed is also an appointee to the Advertising Standards Board,[2] and serves as an UN ambassador against domestic violence via becoming a White Ribbon Day ambassador.[3] He was chosen as one of one hundred future leaders of Australia under the age of 40 to attend the Future Forum in 2006.[2]
Ahmed stood for the Liberal Party in Marrickville for the 2008 New South Wales local council elections.[4]
