Moazzem Hossain launched The Financial Express, the country’s first national financial English daily, in 1993. He was also publisher of the newspaper and Managing Director of the International Publications Limited (IPL), the owning company of the daily.
A post-graduate in Economics from Dhaka University, Moazzem Hossain started his career in journalism in 1971 as a reporter with the erstwhile Pakistan Observer, which is the now-defunct Bangladesh Observer.
He later worked with The New Nation, United News of Bangladesh (UNB), The Dhaka Courier, The Daily Star and The Telegraph (now defunct).
Moazzem Hossain was a member of the management board of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the national news agency, from 1997 to 2000.
He was the first president of the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF).
Moazzem Hossain received the ERF Life Term Achievement Award for excellence in economic journalism, the Distinguished Professional Award for Journalism from the Mercantile Bank Limited, and the Nawab Bahadur Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award for Journalism.