BIDS gets new director general
Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid has been appointed to Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies as its director general, the institute said in a statement yesterday.
Murshid was working as a consultant for UNDP and the Asian Development Bank in Myanmar and Cambodia prior to the new appointment, it said.
Murshid began his research career at BIDS in the late 1970s, and worked as research director before opting for early retirement in 2012.
He obtained his postgraduate diploma in development economics and later his PhD from Cambridge University, UK, in 1985.
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