Professor Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain (MSc 1968)
Former State Minister, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (1991-1996); Minister, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2001-2006)
Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and geologist. Professor Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain joined the University of Dhaka faculty as a junior lecturer in the Department of Geology in 1967. He became a professor in the same department in 1986. He also served as the Chairman of the Department of Geology, the University of Dhaka from 1987 to 1991.
Professor Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain was the Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral resources from 20 March 1991 to 24 November 1995. He also was Minister of Health and Family Welfare from 10 October 2001 – 27 October 2006. He represented the Cumilla -2 constituency as a Jatiyo Sangsad member during 1991–2006.
Professor Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain also worked as an organizer in London for drawing the attention and support of international communities during the war of independence of Bangladesh in1971.