Md Tajdin Hassan

Md Tajdin Hassan, head of marketing at The Daily Star, has received YWN Marketing Excellence Award 2020 from Asia Marketing Federation under an "Asia's top outstanding youth marketer of the year" category.

Jury members selected recipients throughout November 2020. The physical awarding is expected to be held around February 2021 in Singapore.

"I was the one gifted with this award, but a strong team of journalists, a bunch of creative professionals and an empowering leader play very crucial roles for this success," said Hassan.

"I pray this gives me more inspiration to give more to my organisation, my community, and the world as much it gave me pride and joy."

Hassan was recently awarded Joy Bangla Youth Awards 2020 for leading "Mission Save Bangladesh", a social platform that raised $200,000 during the pandemic and helped more than 0.1 million people with daily groceries.

He was also presented an award for audience, social media and community engagement by the World Association of Newspapers & News Publishers. Hassan has been featured in The Washington Post, Yahoo News, INMA and GXpress.

He completed his MBA from the Institute of Business Administration under the University of Dhaka.