Badiul Alam Majumdar

Vice President and Country Director, The Hunger Project, Bangladesh

Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar joined The Hunger Project as Country Director in Bangladesh in 1993 and was named a Vice President in 2003.

He is the founder-Secretary of Shujan (Citizens for Good Governance), a civil society organisation.

Dr Majumdar was born on February 1946 in Comilla, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Commerce with Honours (1967) and Master of Commerce (1968) from Dhaka University. He received a Master of Business Economics (M.B.E.) from Claremont Graduate School and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Dr Majumdar was a Lecturer at Dhaka University in 1969-70. He also taught at Seattle University, Central Washington University and Washington State University during 1976-91. In addition, he worked for NASA and the Saudi Royal Family. He came back to Bangladesh in 1991, resigning a full professorship in America.

He briefly served on the Board of Governors of BARD. He was a member of the Committee to Strengthen and Revitalise Local Governance, which was set up by the last Caretaker Government in Bangladesh. Dr Majumdar has authored several books and published many article in professional journals. He is also a popular newspaper columnist.