Shameer Rasooldeen (born 17 October 1985: Sinhala: ෂමීර් රසූල්ඩීන්), is a Sri Lankan business person, journalist and a television news anchor.
[3] He currently holds the position of Group Director at the Capital Maharaja Organisation and currently heads the export arm of the Group, AF Jones Exporters Ceylon Private Limited.
[4] He has won two international awards and filed over 50 stories for CNN and Channel News Asia.
In 2019, he was selected as a Chevening fellow (a CRISP fellow)[6] as part of the Chevening Science,[7] Research and Leadership program at the St. Cross College, University of Oxford funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth office in London.
[5] His story was titled "Coexistence of children of different ethnicity in Sri Lanka", was aired on CNN World Report.
In a career spanning more than 18 years as a journalist, he has conducted over 10,000 interviews including that of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In the meantime, under the supervision of Mr. R. Rajamahendran, Shameer acts as the mentor in the News First 'Gammadda program', which primarily focused on the development of rural areas of Sri Lanka.
[17] Since 2015, Shameer hosts the news program "Face the Nation", a weekly current affairs talk show in Sri Lanka.