M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury is a Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and currently serves as the Treasurer of the university. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for Microfinance and Development. With a distinguished academic career, Professor Chowdhury has served as a visiting scholar at numerous renowned institutions worldwide since 2000. Notably, he has held the position of Senior Fellow at both the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Center for Global Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Stirling (UK), the Asian Development Bank (Philippines), the National University of Malaysia, and the National Central University (Taiwan).

Professor Chowdhury's educational background includes a B.Com (Hons) and an M.Com in Finance and Banking from the University of Dhaka, as well as a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from the University of Stirling in the UK. His research interests span a wide range of topics, including microfinance, poverty alleviation, safety nets, gender, entrepreneurship, climate finance, payments for ecosystem services, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. He has received research funding from esteemed organizations such as the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), the University of Stirling, the Royal Economic Society (UK), the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), the Government of Japan, the Bureau of Business Research (BBR), the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), Grand Challenges Canada, the Microfinance Management Institute, and the Government of Taiwan. Professor Chowdhury has made noteworthy contributions to academia, with approximately 30 scholarly articles published in reputable national and international peer-reviewed journals.

Beyond his academic work, Professor Chowdhury has shared his expertise as a consultant with various national and international organizations, including the World Bank, CIDA, DFID, FAO, UNDP, PKSF, and the Government of Bangladesh. Actively engaged in multiple international professional bodies, he currently holds a council membership in the Development Studies Association (DSA) in the United Kingdom and serves as the Convener of the Asia-Pacific Region’s Global South Study Group within the DSA. With a strong commitment to academia, Professor Chowdhury has traveled extensively to over 70 countries, contributing to academic discourse and addressing globally relevant issues.