Neelam Verma is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television anchor and former Miss Canada.

Biography

Verma was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, her parents migrated from India. She graduated from York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

's Schulich School of Business

Schulich School of Business

The Schulich School of Business is York University's business school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally-ranked business school. Schulich offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, public administration and international business as...

 and worked for Procter and Gamble in marketing before entering the media industry.. Verma won the Miss Canada

Miss Canada

Miss Canada was a scholarship competition for young women in Canada. It was founded in Hamilton in 1946. The first broadcast of the Miss Canada pageant aired in 1963 on CTV. The late Peter Jennings was host of the pageant in 1964....

 title in 2002 and placed as a semi-finalist at the Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant. She joined OMNI Television

OMNI Television

Omni Television, corporately styled as OMNI Television, is a Canadian television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications. It consists of the company's conventional television stations in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta which are licensed as multicultural stations...

 in Toronto as an entertainment anchor, and later joined Sun TV

CKXT-TV

CKXT-DT was a broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and serving much of southern and eastern Ontario, owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit. At the time of the station's closure on November 1, 2011, the station was serving as an over-the-air simulcast of...

 as a current events host. She has worked in Canada, the United States, India and Egypt as a presenter, spokesmodel and actress and is fluent in various languages.. She is currently the anchor of a national morning show, First Look with Neelam Verma, on Sun News Network.

Television

Verma forayed into broadcast television as an anchor for a Canadian entertainment show, Bollywood Boulevard on Rogers TV where she interviewed celebrities and covered red carpet events. She trained with CNN International

CNN International

CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...

 in New Delhi, India and hosted a daily live current events show on Sun TV where she presented stories on Canadian news, entertainment, culture and lifestyle. In 2011 she joined the Sun News Network as a national morning show anchor.

She has served as a spokesperson for international philanthropic foundations and delivered workshops for the United Nations in Canada, and is involved in causes and initiatives that support the education and empowerment of women and children in developing nations.

Miss Universe

Verma won the Miss Universe Canada

Miss Universe Canada

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 competition in 2002, becoming the first woman of Indian heritage to win the title. She represented Canada at the Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant in San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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and placed in the top 10 as a semi-finalist. She hosted the Miss Universe Canada Pageant in 2007, and served on the judging panel for the event in 2010.