Wahiduddin Mahmud | |
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Adviser for Education | |
Assumed office 16 August 2024 [1] | |
Chief Adviser | Muhammad Yunus |
Preceded by | Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury (as Minister) |
Adviser for Planning | |
Assumed office 16 August 2024 | |
Chief Adviser | Muhammad Yunus |
Preceded by | Salehuddin Ahmed |
Personal details | |
Born | Noakhali,East Bengal,Pakistan | 1 July 1948
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Spouse | Simeen Mahmud |
Alma mater | University of Dhaka Cambridge University London School of Economics |
Occupation | Economist |
Wahiduddin Mahmud (born 1 July 1948) is an economist from Bangladesh. He has been serving as an adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 16 August 2024. [2] [3] He is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy. He was in charge of the Ministry of Finance and Planning in the caretaker government of Bangladesh in 1996. [4]
Mahmud is a professor of economics at the University of Dhaka. [5]
Mahmud completed his matriculation from Annada Government High School,Brahmanbaria. [6] Then he moved to Dhaka to study economics in Dhaka University. He obtained his PhD in economics from Cambridge University. [7] He joined University of Dhaka as a professor of economics.
Mahmud is a member of International Growth Centre based at London School of Economics. He has held positions at Cambridge University,Oxford University,IDS at Sussex,IFPRI,and the World Bank. He was part of many government committees and commissions in Bangladesh relating to micro-finance,national income,agricultural reforms,PRSP and MDG monitoring. He has also participated in Five Year Plans for government of Bangladesh. He was co-founding chairman for PKSF,the apex organization for funding the micro-credit programs of NGOs in Bangladesh.[ citation needed ]
Mahmud said Chittagong Port should be kept out of political programs and warned about the dangers to the economy from political confrontation in June 2006. [8] He was the chairperson of the advisory council of Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards. [9] In 2011,he condemned the government taking control of Grameen Bank from Muhammad Yunus. [10]
In 2019,Mahmud called for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as he reasoned Bangladesh does not have the capacity to host them. [11] He called for not using GDP as the only indicator of development and should consider living standards. [12]
In September 2022,Mahmud filed a police complaint after his Facebook page was hacked. [13]
Mahmud condemned the arrest of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in October 2023,before the general election. [14] On 15 August 2024,he was appointed an advisor of the Interim government led by Muhammad Yunus. [15] He was placed in charge of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Planning. [16] [17]
Mahmud was married to Simeen Mahmud (died 2018),daughter of Mirza Nurul Huda,finance minister of President Ziaur Rahman. [18] [19] [20]
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