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Md Ibrahim Khalilullah is an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and climate storyteller based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is Co-founder and Executive Editor of The Climate Watch, where his work centres on climate change, environmental justice, displacement, migration, and governance accountability.
He began his career in 2013 as a crime reporter at Channel Nine BD, then spent nearly seven years at Jamuna Television, where he covered law and the judiciary as a staff and later senior reporter. Across a decade in broadcast newsrooms he reported on criminal justice, human rights, water and sanitation, and the environment.
His documentary Taken by the River, made through CNN Academy with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, follows two brothers displaced by river erosion. It won the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award in the Displacement and Migration category. In 2021 he was a finalist for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
He is a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and has served as a journalism mentor with Investigative Reporters & Editors since 2020.
His reporting has appeared on CNN, The Business Standard, Earth Journalism Network, The Three, and The Climate Watch. As a Nuffic Scholar of the Netherlands Government, he also worked with RNTC and RNW Media on digital media strategies to counter disinformation and hate speech.
