M Aminul Islam

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M Aminul Islam
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Islam in Dhaka (2025)
Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Ministry of Education
In office
10 November 2024 10 March 2025

M Aminul Islam is a Bangladeshi professor who has served as Special Assistant with the status equivalent to a Minister of State of the Interim Government of Bangladesh. [1] [2] He was given executive power to assist the Adviser for the Ministry of Education. [3] [4] He previously served as the vice-chancellor of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology from 2006 to 2009, pro-vice-chancellor at the National University from 2002 to 2006 and as president of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teacher's Association. [5]

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Education

Islam has a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from the University of Rajshahi. He received a second master's degree and his Ph.D. in physics from McMaster University in Canada. His 1982 doctoral dissertation, Electric Quadrupole Radiation Strength in Neutron Capture, was supervised by William V. Prestwich. [6]

Career

On 10 November 2024, Islam was appointed as the special assistant (status equivalent to a Minister of State) to the chief adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh. [7]

Islam resigned on 10 March 2025 following a request from the office of chief advisor Muhammad Yunus. [8]

References

  1. "CA appoints 3 new special assistants with state ministerial rank". The Daily Star. 11 November 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-11-12.
  2. "3 special assistants appointed to ministries of home affairs, health and education". The Business Standard . 11 November 2024.
  3. "অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন সরকারের প্রধান উপদেষ্টা কর্তৃক বর্ণিত ব্যক্তিবর্গকে প্রতিমন্ত্রীর পদমর্যাদায় বিশেষ সহকারী হিসেবে নিয়োগদান" (PDF). Cabinet Division, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (in Bengali). 2024-11-10.
  4. "CA appoints three special assistants to aid home, health, education advisers". Prothomalo. 2024-11-11.
  5. "The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 859". The Daily Star Archive. 28 Oct 2006. Retrieved 30 Nov 2024.
  6. Islam, M. Aminul (1982). Electric Quadrupole Radiation Strength in Neutron Capture (Ph.D. thesis). McMaster University. hdl:11375/6183. For previous education, see p. ii.
  7. "Three appointed special assistants to chief advisor with ministerial rank". bdnews24.com . 11 November 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-11-12.
  8. "Professor Aminul resigns from his post of special assistant to CA". New Age (Bangladesh) . 10 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.