Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud
Eminent Economist, Bangladesh
Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud is an Eminent Economist of Bangladesh with a prolific career in the academic arena. He was a Professor of Economics atthe University of Dhaka. He was a member of the caretaker government of Bangladesh in 1996 in charge of the ministries of finance and planning and a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP). He is currently a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy, senior country advisor of International Growth Centre (IGC), Chairman of South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes and a country advisor of International Growth Centre at London School of Economics. He has frequently acted as a consultant for many international organizations and held visiting appointments at Cambridge University, IDS at Sussex University, IFPRI, UNDP and the World Bank, among others. He is a founder and former chairman of PKSF, the apex organization for funding the micro-credit programmes of NGOs in Bangladesh. He was also the founding chairman of Institute of Microfinance, a sister organization of PKSF. He has authored a number of books and numerous journal papers on a wide range of topics in economic development. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.