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Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid, also known as Dr KAS Murshid, is a Bangladeshi researcher and former director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[1] He is a director of Prime Bank.[2]

Early life

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Murshid was born in 1951 to Bengali family of Khans from the village of Nasirabad in Nabinagar, Comilla district.[3] He was a son of Khan Sarwar Murshid and Nurjahan Murshid.[4] His father was a member of the planning commission of Mujibnagar government and confidante of Tajuddin Ahmed and his mother was a member of parliament.[5] He studied economics at the University of Dhaka.[6] He got his PhD from the Faculty of Politics and Economics at the University of Cambridge in 1985.[7][8] His PhD thesis was on food policy.[7]

Career

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In the late 1970s, Murshid joined Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies as a researcher.[6]

In 2010, Murshid edited Challenges in Boosting International Migration from Bangladesh which was written by Kazi Iqbal and Mohammad Yunus and published by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[9]

Murshid retired in 2012 from Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He has worked at Asian Development Bank based in Cambodia[10] and United Nations Development Programme.[6]

Murshid was appointed the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies on 9 April 2015.[6] He co-wrote a book with Muhammad Yunus called Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh and published in 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization.[11]

Dr Binayak Sen replaced Murshid on 1 April 2021 as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[12] Under Murshid the institute had climbed to 94 on the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index of the University of Pennsylvania.[13] He edited two books, Securing Food For All in Bangladesh and Agricultural Transformation and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Essays in Memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain, which were published by The University Press Limited in 2021.[14][15]

Murshid wrote The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.[16] In 2024, he described the national budget of Bangladesh as a fictitious budget.[17]

Personal life

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Murshid is married to Shameem Subrana, singer.[18] His son, Shabab Murshid, died at the age of 15 while studying at the International School of Phnom Penh and he founded the Shabab Murshid Foundation in his memory.[18] His elder sister is Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid, senior lecturer of King's College London.[5][19] His other sister Sharmeen Murshid is a member of the advisory council of the Bangladesh interim government.[5][20] His brother Kumar Murshid is a leftist politician in the United Kingdom who was formerly Labour Party.[5][21]

References

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  1. ^ "Economic growth needs to be more closely linked to the rural economy: KAS Murshid". The Business Standard. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  2. ^ "Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid, PhD". www.primebank.com.bd. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  3. ^ "The True Optimist". ICE Business Times. 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  4. ^ প্রতিবেদক, নিজস্ব (2024-08-09). "শারমিন মুরশিদ". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  5. ^ a b c d Haque, Junaidul (2012-12-22). "The passing of an icon". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  6. ^ a b c d "BIDS gets new director general". The Daily Star. 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid-Asian Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs". www.aidiaasia.org. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  8. ^ "LDC Graduation of Bangladesh Moving Towards a Smooth Transition: Dr. K A S Murshid". Elets eGov. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  9. ^ Iqbal, Kazi; Yunus, Mohammad (1 January 2010). Murshid, K. A. S. (ed.). Challenges in Boosting International Migration from Bangladesh. ASIN: B007WPG5TG. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.
  10. ^ "এত বিভক্তি ভালো নয় : কে এ এস মুরশিদ". Prothomalo (in Bengali). 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  11. ^ Yunus, Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid and Muhammad (2018). Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh. FAO. ISBN 978-92-5-130107-4.
  12. ^ Dhali, Bari (1 April 2021). "Dr Binayak Sen to take helm of BIDS". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  13. ^ "BIDS among top 100 global think tanks". The Business Standard. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  14. ^ "Securing Food For All in Bangladesh". The University Press Limited. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  15. ^ "Agricultural Transformation and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Essays in Memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain". The University Press Limited. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  16. ^ Murshid, K. A. S. (2022). The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh. South Asia in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-12313-6.
  17. ^ "এত উন্নয়নের গান গেয়ে এমন কোরামিন অর্থনীতি কারো কাম্য নয়: কেএএস মুর্শিদ". দ্য মিরর এশিয়া (in Bengali). Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  18. ^ a b "Live Now: The album coming soon". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  19. ^ "Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin". Tazeen M. Murshid, Ph.D. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  20. ^ "Yunus-led interim govt sworn in". The Daily Star. 2024-08-08. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  21. ^ admin (2007-11-13). "Kumar Murshid: 'I left Labour to get away from corrupting practices'". Socialist Worker. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
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