Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmed

Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad is the President of the Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) and Chairman of the multidisciplinary research organization Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP). He has been President of the Kuala Lumpur-based Association of Development Research and Training Institutes of Asia and the Pacific, ADIPA (1979-83) and Vice President of the Rome-based Society for International Development, SID (1988-91). His publications include 26 books and over 300 articles and research reports on various aspects of development. He holds an M.A. (Economics) from Dhaka University and a Ph.D. (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London University. He participated in the Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971.