Colin Basran


Colin G. Basran is a Canadian politician, currently the mayor of Kelowna, British Columbia. He won election in the 2014 municipal election, over former mayor Sharon Shepherd.
Basran graduated from the Broadcast Journalism program at BCIT and worked as a television journalist for CHBC-TV from 2002 to 2007, before leaving the station to go into business as a realtor. He was first elected to Kelowna City Council as a city councillor in the 2011 municipal election.
Of Sikh descent, he is both the youngest and the first person of non-European descent ever elected mayor of Kelowna.