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Shamsuddin Illius is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He is the Chittagong Bureau Chief at The Business Standard and writes for AFP as a stringer. His stories are rooted in climate change, environment, biodiversity, climate migration and Rohingya refugee. He received the '2023 Climate Journalism Award' from the European Journalism Centre and the Google News Initiative. Iliius is a Diversity Fellow for 2023 and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and The Uproot Project. His story received an honorable mention for the 2022 Covering Climate Now Award. He is one of the fellows of the World Press Institute in 2022; Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Journalism Fellowship Scheme in 2018. He covered COP26 from the ground in Glasgow in 2021 as a CCMP Fellow supported by the Earth Journalism Network (EJN). In 2022, he participated in a global cross-border investigation with journalists from six different countries— ‘The Sinking Cities Project’ that examines how sea-level rise is affecting major cities. Illius is a story grant fellow of EJN—reporting on Zoonotic Diseases in 2021, Reporting on Biodiversity in 2020, and Reporting on Climate Change Adaptation in the Bay of Bengal in 2019. He is an alumnus of the Thomson Reuters Foundation -Reporting on Migration. He completed a short course on Refugee and Advocacy from Jain University, Bangalore in India. As a field journalist, he frequently visits remote coastal areas of Bangladesh to collect news about people living there, their livelihood, health, and education. He has to report- how their livelihood, lifestyle, culture, and customs are being changed due to the impacts of climate change. His stories appeared at AFP, The Third Pole, The Scotsman, Unbaise The News, The Independent, Scroll.in, The Business Standard and more media outlets. Personal Blog: ****
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