Ex-CNBC anchor Gill joins The World Bank

Tanvir Gill

Former CNBC anchor Tanvir Gill has joined The World Bank in New York as senior external affairs officer for media partnerships.

“I will be looking into creating strategic media partnerships for the bank with new media & legacy media outfits,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “Those who know me, know that I am an ideas’ person & structuring win-win deals has always been a gratifying experience for me.”

Gill was previously an anchor of CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.” She was based in Singapore for six years before leaving CNBC in March.

Gill had previously been working at ET Now, the business channel of India’s The Economic Times, where she covered the global markets and interviewed business leaders. Prior to ET Now, Gill was an anchor on CNBC-TV18, CNBC’s India-based affiliate.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.