Mohammad Ameeruz Zaman has graduate degrees in Economics and Accounting from Vanderbilt University, USA, The University of Manchester, UK and Dhaka University. He was General Secretary of the Dhaka University Central Students Union, joined the Civil Service of erstwhile Pakistan in 1957 and also worked for the United Nations over a twenty year period in overseas assignments. After retiring from the UN, he studied law in Dhaka and is now actively involved in running a charitable foundation in Bangladesh.