Background
Chowdhury was born and bought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin.
broadcaster singer sports journalist
Chowdhury was born and bought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin.
Chowdhury attended Woodford County High School for Girls. In 2000, she graduated with a 2.1 Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Politics with Economics from the University of Bath. In 2003, she studied for an NCTJ Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism.
Chowdhury spent her placement year whilst at university as a television news helpdesk operator at Reuters television News. She joined Princess Productions after graduating and was part of the original team that travelled to Borneo for the ITV1 programme Survivor, before working as United Kingdom Editor for the global online events guide whatsonwhen.com. In late 2003, she was offered a job travelling around the world producing specialist business reports for international print media, interviewing heads of states, politicians and business figures.
Her work took her as far afield as Madagascar, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Maldives and Nigeria.
In 2005, Chowdhury moved to television news and joined ITN as a news assistant and then producer, before moving to British Broadcasting Corporation London, British Broadcasting Corporation News and Bloomberg Television. From September 2008, she spent two seasons as a presenter and reporter with Real Madrid television She was the first journalist to interview Cristiano Ronaldo following his world-record signing for Real Madrid.
She also secured the world exclusive with Karim Benzema who she interviewed in French. Her work included match day reporting, post-match interviews, travelling with the team, news presenting, as well as producing and presenting shows such as RealMadrid Life and Top Goals.
In May 2010, Chowdhury left Madrid and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Sport News team
She broadcasts as a sports presenter for the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel in the United Kingdom and British Broadcasting Corporation World, the latter for whom she worked for throughout the London 2012 Olympics. In August 2014, Chowdhury joined the British Telecom Sport team as presenter of their nightly news round-up show SportsHUB. From September 2015, Chowdhury became a reporter on British Telecom Sport"s exclusive coverage of the Union of European Football Associations Champions League and the Union of European Football Associations Europa League. She has worked alongside the critically-acclaimed musician Nitin Sawhney.
She performed in the United Kingdom touring theatre production of The Mahabharata and recorded vocals on the 2006 film The Namesake.