Syed Rabius Shams is a PR Strategist and freelance journalist with a knack for writing particularly on entrepreneurial ecosystem development for various media outlets. He earned his MBA from the Cardiff Met University, UK. He also holds a Bachelor and Masters in International Relations from the University of Dhaka. Shams is also the winner of Hotcourses UK’s ‘Int’l Student Fair-2010’ prize. He is a Fellow Alumnus of the U.S. State Department’s Professional Fellows programme ‘16, Rotary International’s GSE programme ‘09 and British Council’s Cultural Exchange programme ’05.
With extensive hands on knowledge on Journalism and Public Relations, Shams has attended numerous trainings & seminars on journalism, leadership and entrepreneurship alongside Summer Schools both at home and abroad. Some of these programmes were supported by the Asia Fellows Programme, Commonwealth, British High Commission, the World Bank Office, Dhaka and Oklahoma University.
Shams is involved with many philanthropic and youth organisations including nurturing 1000 ‘Youth Ambassadors’ for HIV-AIDS prevention in 2002. Then he came into journalism, working with the Daily Ajker Kagoj and Jaijadin in 2006. He started his career as a freelance journalist since 2009 for various national English and Bengali dailies and online news portals. He also worked for the Centre for Communication Development & Policy Studies (CCDPS), Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB), Dhaka and Youth Initiative UK (YIU), London, among others.
Syed R Shams is also an avid traveler. He visited USA, UK, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, India, Nepal and Bhutan for purposes. He is also in working on another book titled ‘PR for Startup’ in Bangla. The author was born on 16 December 1979 and brought up at Khilgaon in Dhaka. He can be reached at [email protected], on Facebook: shamsdhk and on Linkedin: in/shamsdhk