Bangladesh doesn't lack talents

Bangladeshi youths are proving their competences in different fields on the global stage, said a Bangladeshi professor who teaches physics at Princeton University.

Bangladesh does not lack talents, M Zahid Hasan told the Youth Dialogue 2015 at International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Saturday.

Born and raised in Bangladesh, Hasan led the discovery of the elusive massless quasi-particle Weyl fermion, which was predicted 85 years earlier by physicist and mathematician Hermann Weyl.

In 2002, Princeton University invited Hasan to present a paper on his research, and offered him a faculty position afterwards.

He became a part of Princeton's physics department, which boasts of 17 former and current Nobel prize winners.

At the dialogue in Dhaka titled "Education and scientific innovation-pathways for a new poverty-free world", Hasan gave examples of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Satyendra Nath Bose.

A few hundred youths from universities attended his lecture.Bangladesh does have a track record of academic thinking, said Syed Nasim Manzur, president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI), which organised the dialogue.

"Innovate, think outside of the box and do not be afraid to dream," he urged the youths in attendance.

At the event, the chamber launched an initiative—Future Lab—to encourage and nurture innovative business ideas of the youth.