Zafar Sobhan
Appearance
Zafar Sobhan is a Bangladeshi editor and columnist. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Dhaka Tribune, one of Bangladesh's largest circulating English-language newspapers. Sobhan was previously the Op-ed Editor of the The Daily Star and the head of Forum magazine. He has been a columnist with The Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, TIME, and Outlook.[1] In 2005, he was named by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He was a Yale World Fellow in 2009.[2][3]
Sobhan is the son of economist and freedom fighter Rehman Sobhan and barrister Salma Sobhan. He studied at Pomona College in the US and the University of British Columbia in Canada.