Zaidi Sattar

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Zaidi Sattar is a Bangladeshi economist and chairman of the Policy Research Institute. [1] [2] [3] He is a retired civil servant and former economist at the World Bank. [4]

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Early life

Sattar completed his bachelors in economics at the University of Dhaka in 1967. [5] He completed his masters in economics at the University of Karachi in 1968. [5]

Career

In 1968, Sattar joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer of economics. [6] He joined the Central Superior Services the next year. [6] After the Independence of Bangladesh, he joined the Bangladesh Civil Service. [6]

Sattar finished his PhD at Boston University in economics in 1984. [6] He became a faculty of the Catholic University of America where he worked till 1992. [6] From 1992 to 1995, he was an advisor of World Bank to the National Board of Revenue. [6] From 1995 to 1996, he was an UNDP consultant at the Bangladesh Planning Commission. [6] From 1996 to September 2007, he worked at the World Bank office in Bangladesh. [6]

From October 2007 to December 2008, Sattar was the vice-chancellor of Millennium University. [6] In April 2008, he was elected an independent director of Southeast Bank Limited. [7] In December 2008, he became the founding chairman of the Policy Research Institute. [6]

In February 2020, Sattar said export diversification for Bangladesh was tied to the availability of bonded warehouses. [8] Sattar had called for pressure on the government of Myanmar to take back the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. [9] He is a director of the Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited, Southeast Bank Foundation, Southeast Bank Capital Services Limited, [10] and Venture Investment Partners Bangladesh Limited. [5] He is a former director of Bay Leasing and Investment Limited and Asia Insurance Limited. [5]

Sattar has opposed the government of Bangladesh providing subsidies to import substituting industries of Bangladesh. [11]

After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, Sattar expressed support for the revolution and various reform initiatives of the Muhmmad Yunus led interim government. [12]

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  3. ↑ "Dr. Zaidi Sattar, Chairman, Policy Research Institute, Bangladesh". ICE Business Times. 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  4. ↑ "Fifty years of the evolution of trade policy in Bangladesh". The Daily Star. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
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  7. ↑ "Zaidi Sattar elected independent director of Southeast Bank". today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  8. ↑ "Export diversification hinges on access to bonded warehouse". The Daily Star. 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  9. ↑ "Rohingya influx caused reduction of wages in host community: report". The Daily Star. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  10. ↑ "Welcome to Southeast Bank Capital Services Limited || Home". Southeast Bank Capital Services Limited. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  11. ↑ "'The protection of import-substituting industries is creating an anti-export bias'". The Business Standard. 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  12. ↑ "Tectonic shifts in politics trigger reform momentum". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  13. ↑ Ahmed, Sadiq; Sattar, Zaidi (2019). Bangladesh Trade Policy for Growth and Employment: Collected Essays 2019. Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh. ISBN   978-984-34-6459-0.
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