Dr. Mizanur Rahman

Dr. Mizanur Rahman is a Professor of Accountancy & Public Policy of the University of Dhaka.

Earlier Dr. Rahman was a Commissioner of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, the government’s apex regulatory body for capital market. He was also a member of Bangladesh Financial Reporting Council.

Over the 4-year term in the Commission, Dr. Rahman was in charge of four functional departments in areas of (I) corporate finance, auditing & reporting & corporate governance of listed companies, (ii) regulation & oversight of mutual funds, exchange traded funds, alternative investment funds and asset management companies, (iii) management information system (MIS), particularly for the development of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) in Bangladesh, and (iv) research and development. He was also deeply involved in enquiry and investigation of accounting frauds, money laundering and other corporate financial crimes.

Earlier Dr. Rahman worked as a Provost of Kabi Jashimuddin Hall in the University of Dhaka. He was also the Founding Director of Master of Accountancy in Taxation, a new graduate program in the University of Dhaka. He got his undergraduate & graduate degrees in accounting in 1995 and 1996 respectively from the same university. Later he obtained Masters and Ph.D. degrees in public policy in 2003 and 2008 respectively from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan. Dr. Rahman was a visiting scholar to Colorado State University and University of Colorado Boulder under the EducationUSA Leadership Institute of the U.S. Department of State in 2015.

Dr. Rahman worked as a Research Scholar at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan in 2006-07. Then he worked as an Economist in the Asian Development Bank Institute in 2008-09. His research interests include capital market research and macroeconomic & monetary management. He was the Executive Director of the Center for Accounting and Capital Market Development, a research project funded by the World Bank and administered by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.

His professional engagements included international consultancies with Asian Development Bank, World Bank and UN organizations. He has widely published in international journals. He often appears in electronic media and writes op-eds on critical issues of public policy relevance. In January 2010, the Global Development Network (GDN) awarded him the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance First Prize for his outstanding 'Research on Development.'