Amirul Islam Chowdhury
{{Short description|Bangladeshi academic}}
{{other people5||Amirul Islam (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Amirul Islam Chowdhury
| office = Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University
| term_start = 1994
| term_end = 1998
| office1 = President of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
| term_start1 = 3 January 2014
| term_end1 = 2017
| predecessor1 = Nurul Islam
| successor1 = Mahfuza Khanam
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1942}}
| birth_place = Rangpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| education = Ph.D. (economics)
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|University of Dhaka|University of Wales}}
| occupation = University academic, scholar, economist
}}
Amirul Islam Chowdhury (born 1942) is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University and president of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. He is currently a professor at the United International University.
Education
Chowdhury got his bachelor's and master's in economics from the University of Dhaka in 1961 and 1963 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wales in 1979. He later worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University during 1987–88.{{cite web | url=http://sobe.uiu.ac.bd/profiles/amirul/ | title=Faculty Profile | publisher=United International University | work=School of Business and Economics | accessdate=10 September 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014170350/http://sobe.uiu.ac.bd/profiles/amirul/ | archive-date=14 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}
Career
Chowdhury served as a research officer at the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Pakistan during June 1964 – April 1965. He was a faculty member of Jahangirnagar University at the Department of Economics from January 1971 until October 2004. He was also a professor of economics at North South University for five years. He served as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University during July 1994 until 1998 and also of Gano Bishwabidyalaya for a year.
Chowdhury was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the state-run Sonali Bank from August 2001 until August 2002. He is currently serving as the vice chairman of Centre for Urban Studies, Dhaka.{{cite web | url=http://cusdhaka.org/users/amirul-islam-chowdhury | title=Amirul Islam Chowdhury, Ph.D. | publisher=Centre for Urban Studies, Dhaka | accessdate=10 September 2016}} He was elected the president of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh on 3 January 2014.{{cite web | url=http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/newsletters/Jan_Mar_2014.pdf | title=Newsletter | publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh | date=1 January 2014 | accessdate=10 September 2016 | archive-date=10 May 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510090312/http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/newsletters/Jan_Mar_2014.pdf | url-status=dead }}
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Category:University of Dhaka alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Wales
Category:Academic staff of Jahangirnagar University
Category:20th-century Bangladeshi economists
Category:Vice-chancellors of Jahangirnagar University