[1][2] He is best known as the founder and managing director of the Cosmos Group, a Bangladeshi conglomerate incorporating over a dozen companies operating at home and abroad.
While still a student, Khan rose to prominence as a news commentator on Radio Bangladesh and as an English newscaster on BTV.
As part of a generation of media entrepreneurs, Khan in the 1988s established the United News of Bangladesh (UNB),[4] the first fully digitized wire service in South Asia and is the founding editor of the Dhaka Courier, an independent newsweekly.
[citation needed] He is also involved in environmentalism centering the Royal Bengal Tiger and is an avid promoter of art and music, for “their capacity to transcend barriers and borders”.
[citation needed] These passions have most frequently found expression in the form of books he has either authored or co-authored.