Dr. Wahiduddin Mahmud – Bangladesh Institute of Policy Studies (BIPS)

Dr. Wahiduddin Mahmud received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cambridge University and served as Professor of Economics at Dhaka University. He was Adviser to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh for the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Currently, he is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UN-CDP); Chairman, the South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI); and Senior Advisor to International Growth Centre’s research programme on Bangladesh. He held teaching and research appointments at Cambridge, IDS at Sussex, World Bank, UNDP, ILO, and IFPRI. He also served as Chairman of the Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) of Bangladesh.