Bangladesh’s Upcoming LDC Graduation: Implications, Challenges, and The Way Forward - Rahman

Professor Mustafizur Rahman is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, a leading think tank in South Asia. Prior to this, he was Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue from 2007 to 2017. Professor Rahman started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems (AIS) of the Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka. He was awarded the prestigious Ibrahim Memorial Gold Medal by the University of Dhaka for excellence in research. Professor Rahman is a member of the Dhaka University Senate. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Syndicate member of the BRAC University. He did his Masters in Economics, with Distinction, from the Kharkov State University, Ukraine, and Ph.D in Development Economics from Moscow State University, Russia. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with issues of structural impediments to Bangladesh’s economic growth. He has continued to remain interested in this and related themes, particularly from the perspective of designing appropriate policies and addressing implementation-related challenges in developing country contexts. At the same time, his academic interests and professional pursuits have led him to a range of other areas of contemporary relevance to Bangladesh and other low-income economies, in national, regional, and global settings. Professor Rahman has undertaken post-doctoral research at several reputed academic institutions including the University of Oxford, UK in 1994 and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore in 1998 as Visiting Fellow, Yale University, the USA in 2003 as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and Warwick University, the UK in 2006 as post-Doctoral Fellow. Professor Rahman has carried out research works in collaboration with a number of international organizations and institutions including the UNDP, UNCTAD, UNESCAP, The World Bank, ADB, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, RIS (New Delhi), WTO Secretariat, IDRC (Canada), Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission, and the ILO, among others. Professor Rahman’s areas of current research interest include Bangladesh’s fiscal-monetary policies and macroeconomic performance, trade policies and trade reforms, globalization, regionalization and regional trading arrangements, connectivity in the Southern Asian region, WTO, multilateral trading system, and interests of low-income countries, implementation challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh, and graduation challenges of the LDCs. He has published widely in professional journals both in Bangladesh and abroad and has authored books and monographs in areas of interest and expertise. Dr. Rahman is a Series Editor of South Asia Economic Policy Studies published by Springer and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Rising Powers and Global Governance, Turkey.
At different points in time Professor Rahman has served as member of various important national bodies and committees set up by the Government of Bangladesh. These include WTO Advisory Committee, National Coal Policy Review Committee, Regulatory Reforms Commission, Committee to review National Sustainable Development Strategy, National Task Force to Monitor the Impact of Global Financial Crisis, Consultative Group of the Economic Relations Division (ERD), Core-committee on Transit and Connectivity and Study Team for BCIM-Economic Corridor. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Human Development Report. Dr. Rahman has served as a member of the Panel of Economists for Bangladesh’s Sixth and Seventh Five Year Plans, and was a member of the Panel of Experts for the Second Perspective Plan of Bangladesh (2021-2041). He has served as a member of the T-20 for G-20 Task Force set up to provide policy advise in view of the Japanese Presidency of the G-20 and has co-authored two policy briefs. He is a member of the Core Group of the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.

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