Farzana Baduel | CEO | Curzon PR

Farzana Baduel

President-elect (2025), Chartered Institute of Public Relations | CEO & Co-founder, Curzon PR

Farzana Baduel is a specialist in global strategic communications, with a focus on positioning organisations and individuals on the international stage. She is the President-elect (2025) of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and CEO of Curzon PR, a London-based consultancy that partners with governments, corporations, and development organisations to deliver integrated communications strategies.
She serves as the Resident PR Expert at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, where she advises entrepreneurs on global communications and reputation management. Farzana is a Chartered PR Practitioner and an honorary fellow of the CIPR. She has been recognised on the PRWeek Power List and was named among Provoke Media’s Innovator 25 for EMEA, highlighting her contributions to the communications industry.
Farzana co-founded the Asian Communications Network, which promotes diversity within the communications industry and serves on the Steering Committee for Socially Mobile, a non-profit supporting social mobility in the PR sector. She also hosts the PRCA podcast, Fuse, featuring interviews with professionals in public relations.
Her board positions include trustee roles at the British Asian Trust, addressing poverty in South Asia, and Soho Theatre, a cultural organisation producing theatre, comedy, and cabaret in London.
She believes in the power of storytelling for good and as a communication bridge to connect worlds.

Sectors

  • Government
  • Financial Services
  • Real Estate

Services

Markets

  • UK
  • South Asia
  • Middle East

Award-winning Expertise

Foreign Policy Institute, John Hopkins University

Creative Work Studios | Refik Anadol NFT x Inspiration 4 mission
Global media relations

The MetaRembrandt Museum,
Netherlands, Media Relations

Frederic Gassita and the Bantu Jazz orchestra | UK and Gabon
Media relations

Dragonfly Aerospace
Global strategic communications

British Asian Trust
Global strategic communications

The Wave Project | UK
Media Relations

Millennium Technology Prize | Finland
Global strategic communications

Right to Play
Global media relations

Bilbao, Spain
Trade and investment promotion

Ukrainian Biennale
Mystetskyi Arsenal | Kyiv

Apollo Tyres
Global strategic communications

DLF Real Estate Gurugram
Global strategic communications

Bahrain
Arts and culture promotion

Ora Developers, Islamabad
Global strategic communications

World Economic Forum, Davos
Leadership Profiling

Guinea Conakry
Trade and investment promotion