Tehmina Kaoosji is a Communications Consultant, Broadcast Journalist and Gender Equality Activist currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A familiar and in-demand broadcast face, she has more than a decade of LIVE breaking news and current affairs programming experience. She currently anchors ‘Wacana English’, Sinar Harian’s flagship current affairs talk show.

She previously anchored ‘Money Matters’, TV3 Malaysia’s flagship financial talk show. She was with the Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA), from 2014-2020, anchoring and producing special projects and annual highlights like the National Budget and Election coverage. She also anchored and produced the feminist talkshow ‘Tea with Tehmina’, and ‘Bernama Today’ & ‘The Nation’, focusing on topics of national and regional current affairs.

She is a Thomson Reuters Foundation Fellow and TedX Malaysia alumni. She has spoken at Malaysian Parliament on Online Hate Speech & Disinformation as part of the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR). She participated in the German Federal Foreign Office’s Disinformation & Media Freedom workshop in Berlin. She has participated in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Journalism & Media.

In addition to her work with Malaysian, regional and global media organisations, she is Partner & Communications Director of her boutique communications consultancy, The Big Picture, which specialises in advocacy and policy based outcomes for international organisations such as the United Nations Population Fund. Her work also focuses on collaboration and strategising with civil society and in particular, women’s rights organisations.