Professor Dr. Atiur Rahman

Dr. Atiur Rahman is an honorary Professor of Department of Development Studies in Dhaka University. He also served earlier as a Professor in this Department. He is now Bangabandhu Chair Professor at the Department of History of the same University. In addition, Professor Rahman is also the Chair of the Executive Committee of Center for Advance Research on Arts and Social Sciences of this University. Popularly known as the ‘Poor Peoples’ Economist’ and a ‘Green Governor’, Dr. Rahman is many times awarded central bank governor. After a long spell of research tenure at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies he joined Dhaka University as a Professor of Development Studies in 2006. He was picked up as the tenth Governor of Bangladesh Bank in 2009 where he served about seven years. He is a Fellow of Bangla Academy and Life Member of Asiatic Society, Bangladesh and Bangladesh Economic Association. He is also a Special Adviser to Social Innovation Japan (SIJ) in Tokyo, a diverse platform of change-makers. He is currently serving as the Chairman of Unnayan Shamannay, a globally acclaimed think tank founded by him in 1994. He has more than seventy books both in English and Bengali to his credit.