Wahiduddin Mahmud

Mahmud completed his matriculation from Annada Government High School, Brahmanbaria.{{cite news |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/starinsight/2006/11/02/guru.htm |title="Annada Govt High School" Light More Light |date=November 25, 2006 |accessdate=January 26, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star}} Then he moved to Dhaka to study economics at University of Dhaka. He earned his PhD in economics from Cambridge University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theigc.org/person/wahiduddin-mahmud/ |title=Wahiduddin Mahmud |website=International Growth Centre}} He later joined University of Dhaka as a professor of economics.

Mahmud is a member of International Growth Centre based at London School of Economics. He has held positions at Cambridge University, Oxford University, IDS at Sussex, IFPRI, and the World Bank. He was part of many government committees and commissions in Bangladesh relating to micro-finance, national income, agricultural reforms, PRSP and MDG monitoring. He has also participated in Five Year Plans for government of Bangladesh. He was co-founding chairman for PKSF, the apex organization for funding the micro-credit programs of NGOs in Bangladesh.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Mahmud said Chittagong Port should be kept out of political programs and warned about the dangers to the economy from political confrontation in June 2006.{{Cite news |title=Unrest in RMG sector sends danger signal to economy |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/06/06/d60606050154.htm |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star}} He was the chairperson of the advisory council of Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards.{{Cite news |date=2015-11-15 |title=Citi's micro-entrepreneurship awards step into 11th year |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/business/citis-micro-entrepreneurship-awards-step-11th-year-172573 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} In 2011, he condemned the government taking control of Grameen Bank from Muhammad Yunus.{{Cite news |date=2011-03-03 |title=Unfair, ominous |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-176231 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}

In 2019, Mahmud called for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as he reasoned Bangladesh does not have the capacity to host them.{{Cite news |date=2019-05-10 |title=Bangladesh doesn't have the capacity: Wahiduddin Mahmud |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/bangladesh-doesnt-have-the-capacity-wahiduddin-mahmud-1741324 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} He called for not using GDP as the only indicator of development and should consider living standards.{{Cite news |date=2022-02-24 |title=GDP can't be the only indicator of development: Wahiduddin Mahmud |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/gdp-cant-be-only-indicator-development-wahiduddin-mahmud-2969711 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}

In September 2022, Mahmud filed a police complaint after his Facebook page was hacked.{{Cite news |date=2022-09-28 |title=Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud files GD after FB account gets hacked |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/economist-wahiduddin-mahmud-files-gd-after-fb-account-gets-hacked-3129821 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}

Mahmud condemned the arrest of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in October 2023, before the general election.{{Cite news |last=Mahmud |first=Wahiduddin |date=2023-10-31 |title=An ill-timed arrest? |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/ill-timed-arrest-3458081 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} On 15 August 2024, he was appointed an advisor of the Interim government led by Muhammad Yunus.{{Cite news |date=2024-08-15 |title=Wahiduddin Mahmud, Fouzul Kabir Khan, Ali Imam Majumder may become new advisers to interim govt |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/politics/wahiduddin-mahmud-fouzul-kabir-khan-ali-imam-majumder-may-become-new-advisers |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Business Standard |language=en}} He was placed in charge of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Planning.{{Cite news |last= |title=New curriculum can't be implemented, says Education Advisor Wahiduddin Mahmud |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/3eecc39651ff |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=Bdnews24.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=The US Embassy Charge d'Affaires Helen LaFave calls on Planning and Education Adviser |url=https://today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd/trade-market/the-us-embassy-charge-daffaires-helen-lafave-calls-on-planning-and-education-adviser-1727113874 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Financial Express |language=en}}

Mahmud was married to Simeen Mahmud (died 2018), daughter of Mirza Nurul Huda, the third Vice President of Bangladesh.{{Cite news |last=Mahmud |first=Wahiduddin |date=2018-04-07 |title=In memory of Simeen Mahmud |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/tribute/memory-simeen-mahmud-1559089 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |type=Opinion |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Ahmed |first=Salahuddin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Szfqq7ruqWgC |title=Bangladesh: Past and Present |date=2004-01-01 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=9788176484695 |page=221 |language=en}}{{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |year=2012 |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |edition=Second |chapter=Huda, Mirza Nurul |editor2-last=Salam |editor2-first=Muhammad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Huda,_Mirza_Nurul}}

• {{cite book |last1=Chowdhury |first1=Anis |last2=Mahmud |first2=Wahiduddin |year=2008 |title=Handbook on the South Asian economies |publisher=Edward Elgar |location=Cheltenham, UK |isbn=978-1-84844-129-3}}
• {{cite book |last1=Mahmud |first1=Wahiuddin |last2=Osmani |first2=S. R. |year=2011 |title=Theory and Practice of Microcredit |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-68680-8}}
• {{cite book |last1=Khandker |first1=Shahidur R. |last2=Mahmud |first2=Wahiduddin |year=2012 |title=Seasonal Hunger and Public Policies: Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh |publisher=World Bank |location=Washington D.C. |isbn=978-0-8213-9554-7}}
• {{cite book |last1=Mahmud |first1=Wahiduddin |author-mask=2 |year=2021 |title=Markets, Morals and Development: Rethinking Economics from a Developing Country Perspective |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-48508-0}}
• Markets, Morals and Development: Rethinking Economics from a Developing Country Perspective (Routledge, 2021) ISBN 9781032149240.{{Cite news |date=2021-12-30 |title=Is economics passé? On Wahiduddin Mahmud's new book, 'Markets, Morals and Development' |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/economics-passe-2928671 |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}

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