Alan Khan (born in Durban, South Africa, 17 December 1971) is a media and radio personality in South Africa. Alan is currently the Senior Director of Corporate Affairs at the Durban University of Technology [1] in Durban, South Africa. He also presents a daily talk show on national radio via the SABC on Lotus FM. The show is broadcast Monday to Thursday between 19H00 and 20H00. In April 2015, two months before celebrating his 25-year anniversary on radio, Alan was inducted into the South African Radio Hall of Fame.
He is a former Chief Executive Officer of Jacaranda 94.2 [2] and Jacaranda RMFM. Jacaranda is South Africa's biggest independent (non-government controlled) radio station.
He was Deputy MD of East Coast Radio, [3] in Durban, and also presented the weekday morning show called the BIG Breakfast with model, businesswomen and TV star Sorisha Naidoo. Khan started his career at TNT Radio back in 1990. In 1993, he joined Capital Radio 604, [4] where he worked until the station's last day of broadcast, which was on November 29, 1996. Alan co-hosted the last show on Capital Radio with colleague Kenny Maistry. Alan decided to branch out into television, where he covered powerboating on Super Sport in the 1990s and then co-hosted am2day, the daily morning national TV show on SABC2.
Alan was a former member the Transformation Committee of the Kwazulu Natal Rugby Union [5] and a member of the KZNRU Marketing Committee. In March 2012, the Consul General of India in Durban appointed Alan as a Director of the India South Africa Business Forum [6].
In 1997, ELLE Magazine in South Africa listed Alan as one of the most eligible bachelors in the country. He married two months later.