Experience

Metropolitan University, Sylhet

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice Chancellor

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  In a response to the changing landscape of knowledge and education, the then government of Bangladesh, during the 1990s, had revised its education policy to privatise tertiary education in order to make-up the supply deficit of skilled manpower in the country. And the concomitant shift in government’s education policy, which came into effect with the enactment of the Private University Act (PUA)-1992 (later repealed by the PUA-2010). During that period, there was only one state-funded university for the vast population of Sylhet—the north-eastern administrative division of the country. Due to its limited capacity that lone university could not accommodate all the aspirant students into its undergraduate and Master’s programmes as a result of which students from the economically solvent families had either been going abroad or to the private universities in Dhaka to pursue tertiary education. But the high costs of overseas education and the exorbitant fee structures of the then Dhaka-based private universities had left majority of the students of Sylhet region outside the purview of the then-existing tertiary education system. In such a backdrop, Dr. Toufique Rahman Chowdhury, a renowned banker, entrepreneur and educationist, in conjunction with a number of renowned educationists from both home and abroad, had initiated the establishment of Metropolitan University with a vision to offer quality tertiary education at an affordable cost. The university had started its journey on 3rd May 2003. With the passage of time, however, some 10,000 students have already been graduated from different departments and programmes while around 3500 students are currently pursuing undergraduate and Master’s degrees in various subjects under different departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Law and Justice, English. Show less


Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology
• Education Administration Programs
• 300 - 400 Employee
• Faculty Member

  • Apr 2004 - Present


SOAS University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2018

  I did PhD at the department of Development Studies as Commonwealth Scholar. I had been working under the supervision of Professor Peter P Mollinga (https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff59646.php). Other two supervisors are Laura Hammond and Tania Kaiser. I investigated the connections between two concurrent processes: the marginalisation of the indigenous people and the environmental degradation. The findings show that where the processes of marginalisation and environmental degradation occur, they happen concurrently; therefore, it is plausible that these social and environmental processes co-evolved. This study investigated how these processes co-evolved by assessing five criteria of co-evolutionary relations. The findings of this study show that the processes of marginalisation and environmental degradation have mutual connections and they affect each other’s evolution. These processes take place in proximity in terms of space and time (spatially and temporally). These social and environmental processes have several feedback loops and bi-directional causalities. Show less