Nadir Nibras (Bengali: নাদির নিবরাস) is a Bangladeshi travel filmmaker and content creator. He is best known for his youtube channel Nadir On The Go, through which he has over 11 million followers across social media platforms. His productions — created in English and Bangla — cover travel, history, culture, food, and stories of people from destinations around the world. He received the Channel i Digital Media Award for Best YouTube Content Creator (2021, 2022) and the Marvel of Tomorrow Influencers Award in the Travel category (2021), (Official) TikTok Bangladesh Creator Awards for Creator of the Year (2024), The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards for Best Content Creator (2021, 2022, 2024)
Education Nadir was born in Dinajpur in northern Bangladesh. His father worked as a dental surgeon. The family eventually settled in Dhaka, where he completed his O and A Levels at an English-medium school. In 2011, he moved to the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Oklahoma State University.
Nadir participated in international study abroad programs through Oklahoma State University, including a semester abroad in Iceland. Nadir also helped lead efforts to improve the university’s sexual violence prevention education policies and advocated for fair labor practices by encouraging the university to ensure that its licensed apparel was not sourced from sweatshops.
Nadir worked in a computational research laboratory focusing on data science. He was the first author of a peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, which examined motor recovery following stroke and contributed to research on rehabilitation outcomes.
Career Nadir began making travel videos in 2016. For the first four years, his YouTube channel had fewer than 100 subscribers.
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Nadir focused on improving his filmmaking and his productions subsequently went viral, with one early video about visa-free countries available to Bangladeshi passport holders gaining widespread attention and rapidly expanding his audience.
The Nadir On The Go brand has grown into a multi-platform, bilingual operation. Nadir remains responsible for scripting, directing filming at destinations, and primarily editing videos, with a wider team supporting post-production work. News channels in Bangladesh, Albania, Romania, and beyond have featured him and in 2025 he did an extended video about his journey on the Malaysian show Studio Sembang with Amelia Henderson.
Awards and achievements The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards 2021 - Best Content Creator (Travel Vlog) Channel i Digital Media Awards 2021 - Best YouTube Content Creator Marvel of Tomorrow Influencers Award - Travel (2021) The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards 2022 - Best Content Creator (Travel Vlog) Channel i Digital Media Awards 2022 - Best YouTube Content Creator The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards 2023 - Best Content Creator (Travel Vlog) Blender's Choice-The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards 2024 - Best Content Creator (Food & Recipe/Travel) (Official) TikTok Bangladesh Creator Awards 2024 - Creator of the Year
External links Nadir On The Go Official Website
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