Syed Nazakat, India, is an award-winning journalist and Editor-in-Chief

of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. With more than 15 years of

experience across broadcast, print and online journalism, Syed Nazakat
has reported from over 20 countries. Prior to his current role, he was
special correspondent at India's leading news magazine- The Week.
Before that he was based in Bangkok, Thailand with Asia News Network
(ANN) as an Assistant News Editor. Nazakat has been the recipient of
several accolades in journalism which includes India's prestigious
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, Karmaveer
Puraskaar and Christiane Amanpour Award for Religion Journalism. His
story on women trafficking from Afghanistan was shortlisted for the Kurt
Schork International Award (London, 2013), German Development Media
Award (Berlin, 2013) and Bayeux-Calvados Award for War
Correspondents (France, 2014). Sysed Nazakat has been instrumental in
the setting up of the data journalism initiative focused on Indian
healthcare, called Health Analytics India in the year 2015. Nazakat is a
fellow at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo
de Manila University, Philippines. He has taught as a visiting faculty at
Convergent Journalism program at AJK Mass Communication Research
Centre Delhi and at ACFJ, Manila. He is also heading the Society of Asian
Journalists (SAJ).