Mustafa K. Mujeri, a graduate from Rajshahi University, obtained Ph.D in Economics from McMaster University in Canada in 1978. Before joining as the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in 2009, he served as the Chief Economist of the Bangladesh Bank; Advisor of UNDP in Cambodia; Director Research of the Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific; Visiting Faculty at the Department of Economics, University of Queensland; National Expert in the Bangladesh Planning Commission; and Associate Professor of Economics, Rajshahi University. He has published extensively in national and international journals.