Full Name: Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman

Area of Interest: The dynamics of the society and the reasons behind

Affiliation: Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC)

Current Position: Executive Chairman

Date of Birth: July 26, 1951

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Chittagong

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman (born 26 July 1951) is a Bangladeshi Academic, Economist and Policy Maker. He is a leading policy voice of Bangladesh with over three decades of experience within and outside government. On 9 January 2008, Rahman was appointed as an adviser (cabinet minister) to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, led by Fakhruddin Ahmed and was entrusted with the ministries of commerce and education. He served in this capacity till evening of 6 January 2009. He was instrumental in driving a political negotiation process between the Caretaker government and the army on one hand and the two major political parties, Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on the other that led to the successful election of 29 December 2008. For this, he is credited with a lead role in the successful return of Bangladesh to electoral democracy.

Rahman took his Senior Cambridge examinations from the P.A.F. College, Sargodha in Pakistan and higher secondary certificate from Faujdarhat Cadet College in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He studied Economics at the Dhaka University for his Bachelors and Masters. He received his PhD in political sociology from the Manchester University, UK in 1986. His PhD research focused on the sociology of colonial rule and emergence of the state in Bangladesh. He studied power, property and institutions those are new area of Economics.

Rahman was a leading researcher at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies between 1977 and 2000 and led the internationally renowned Analysis of Poverty Trends project (1989-98). In 1996, he founded the think tank Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and has been its Executive Chairman since 2000. He was the lead consultant for the preparation of the first poverty reduction strategy paper, “Unlocking the Potential, 2005”, of the Government of Bangladesh and was a member of the SAARC Poverty Commission. He was an Inspire Fellow at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, USA and was awarded the Dr. John Meyer Global Citizenship Award by the Institute in November, 2009.

In 2013, Rahman was awarded Gold Medal by Rotary International Bangladesh. He has been a regular resource person at the National Defence College in Dhaka since its inception in 1999. In 2011 Rahman established the research-based civic platform - Chittagong Research Initiative (CRI). He is the convener of two new civic platforms - SROTA (Safe Roads and Transport Alliance) launched on 8 October 2016 and HEALTHY BANGLADESH launched on 13 May 2017. Currently he is the Executive Chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC). Rahman's newest area of engagement is sustainable health-care, urban poverty and urban innovations.

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