Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid

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Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid, also known as Dr KAS Murshid, is a Bangladeshi researcher and former director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. [1] He is a director of Prime Bank. [2]

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Early life

Murshid was born in 1951 to Bengali family of Khans from the village of Nasirabad in Nabinagar, Comilla district. [3] He was a son of Khan Sarwar Murshid and Nurjahan Murshid. [4] His father was a member of the planning commission of Mujibnagar government and confidante of Tajuddin Ahmed and his mother was a member of parliament. [5] He studied economics at the University of Dhaka. [6] He got his PhD from the Faculty of Politics and Economics at the University of Cambridge in 1985. [7] [8] His PhD thesis was on food policy. [7]

Career

In the late 1970s, Murshid joined Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies as a researcher. [6]

In 2010, Murshid edited Challenges in Boosting International Migration from Bangladesh which was written by Kazi Iqbal and Mohammad Yunus and published by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. [9]

Murshid retired in 2012 from Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He has worked at Asian Development Bank based in Cambodia [10] and United Nations Development Programme. [6]

Murshid was appointed the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies on 9 April 2015. [6] He co-wrote a book with Muhammad Yunus called Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh and published in 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization. [11]

Dr Binayak Sen replaced Murshid on 1 April 2021 as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. [12] Under Murshid the institute had climbed to 94 on the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index of the University of Pennsylvania. [13] He edited two books, Securing Food For All in Bangladesh and Agricultural Transformation and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Essays in Memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain, which were published by The University Press Limited in 2021. [14] [15]

Murshid wrote The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022. [16] In 2024, he described the national budget of Bangladesh as a fictitious budget. [17]

Personal life

Murshid is married to Shameem Subrana, singer. [18] His son, Shabab Murshid, died at the age of 15 while studying at the International School of Phnom Penh and he founded the Shabab Murshid Foundation in his memory. [18] His elder sister is Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid, senior lecturer of King's College London. [5] [19] His other sister Sharmeen Murshid is a member of the advisory council of the Bangladesh interim government. [5] [20] His brother Kumar Murshid is a leftist politician in the United Kingdom who was formerly Labour Party. [5] [21]

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