Mahdi Amin

Mahdi Amin
মাহদী আমিন
Adviser to the Senior vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Assumed office
August 2014
Personal details
Born (1986-06-30) 30 June 1986
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citizenship Bangladesh
Nationality Bangladeshi
Political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Alma mater University of Cambridge
London School of Economics
Middlesex University
Occupation Academic, consultant
Religion Islam

Mahdi Amin (Bengali: মাহদী আমিন) is a Bangladeshi academic and political adviser. He is currently based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge.[1]

On 15 August 2014, Mahdi Amin was named the education and research adviser to the senior vice chair of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Tarique Rahman.[2]

Early life and education

Mahdi Amin was born on 30 June 1986 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father Muhammad Ruhul Amin is an entrepreneur and investor, and mother Salma Amin is a homemaker. Amin's maternal grandfather Abdul Awal was a politician and the founding president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Comilla.[3]

Amin attended Dhanmondi Government Boys School and Dhaka College for his secondary and higher secondary education respectively. Amin attended Middlesex University, earning a bachelor of arts in business administration and graduating first in his program.[4] He also went to London School of Economics and City University of New York, where he respectively earned a specialisation certificate in political economy of public policy and attended an exchange program.[5]

In 2010, Amin earned his MPhil in South Asian studies from the University of Cambridge, where he also published a book on India's rise as a research and development hub. His supervisors were Jaideep Prabhu and Sir Christopher Bayly.[4] The same year he began a PhD at the Judge Business School.

Amin is the founder and president of the University of Cambridge-based think-tank Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge with affiliate bodies in United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland and Bangladesh.

Consultancy

Amin has worked with a range of international companies as part of his consultancy practice including Alive Products Limited, Audio Analytic, British Telecom Group, Contact Field Marketing, IBM Corporation, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive, London Legacy Development Corporation, Primavera Gallery, Radical Sportscars, Westfield Group, and Wellcome Trust.[1]

Politics

On 15 August 2014, Mahdi Amin was appointed as the education and research adviser to Tarique Rahman, Senior Vice Chairman of the BNP.[2] The announcement generated widespread media attention as it was the first time Tarique Rahman appointed an adviser.[6]

In this role, Amin has focused on research and political opportunities for Bangladeshi youth.[7]

In July 2013, Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge founded and presided over by Amin, published The Political Thought of Tarique Rahman: Empowerment of the Grassroots People. The publication received widespread media attention and triggered subsequent local publications in United States, Canada, Germany, Australia and Finland in Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Ulm, University of New South Wales and University of Helsinki respectively[8][9][10][11][12]

Through the programmes organised by Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge, Mahdi Amin has actively engaged with a number of politicians, academics, journalists and bureaucrats, including New York State Senator Jose Peralta; US Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York City, Mayor Vincent Mazzeo of Northfield, Mayor Dr Felix Roque of West New York, New Jersey; Canadian Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray; Mitzie Hunter MP; Australian MP Mehreen Faruqi, John Dowd AO QC AO QC; Chrystia Freeland, former editor of Financial Times; David Nicholson and journalist of The Guardian and Daily Telegraph.[13][14][15][16][17]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Cambridge Judge Business School : Mahdi Amin, Judge Business School, retrieved 2014-09-08
  2. 1 2 তারেক রহমানের উপদেষ্টা হলেন ক্যামব্রিজের গবেষক মাহদী, Manabzamin, 17 August 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
  3. ↑ আত্মীয়তার বন্ধনে রাজনীতি-৭, Manab Zamin, 23 May 2015, retrieved 2015-10-09
  4. 1 2 কেমব্রিজ কথন, Prothom Alo, 20 July 2011, retrieved 2014-09-08
  5. ↑ তারেক রহমানের উপদেষ্টা ক্যামব্রিজের গবেষক মাহদী, Bangladesh Pratidin, 16 August 2014, retrieved 2015-10-09
  6. ↑ ক্যামব্রিজ শিক্ষক মাহদীকে উপদেষ্টা নিয়োগ তারেকের, Daily Amar Desh, 17 August 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
  7. ↑ ক্ষমতার জন্য পিতার হত্যাকারীদের সঙ্গে রেখেছেন হাসিনা, Manabzamin, 26 August 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
  8. ↑ জিয়াউর রহমান সব সময় ছিলেন জনপ্রিয় : তারেক রহমান, Daily Kaler Kantho, 2 September 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
  9. ↑ ইনু মেনন ও মঞ্জুর সমালোচনায় তারেক রহমান, Daily Jugantor, 30 August 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
  10. ↑ সরকার হটাতে নামুন রাজপথে: ফখরুল, BDNews24.com, 23 November 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  11. ↑ 'Political thought' of Tarique Rahman, BDNews24, 27 June 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  12. ↑ তারেক জিয়াকে নিয়ে লন্ডনে তথ্য-চলচ্চিত্র নির্মাণ, The Daily Ittefaq, 24 November 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  13. ↑ নিউইয়র্কে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' গ্রন্থের প্রকাশনা অনুষ্ঠান, Bangladesh Pratidin, 19 August 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  14. ↑ টরন্টোতে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অফ তারেক রহমান : এম্পাওয়ারমেন্ট অফ দ্যা গ্রাসরুট পিপল' বইয়ের প্রকাশনা উৎসব, Weekly Shaptahik, retrieved 2014-09-08
  15. ↑ ২১ অক্টোবর বার্লিনে 'দি পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' গ্রন্থের প্রকাশনা উৎসব, BD Today, 9 October 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  16. ↑ কলাম্বিয়া ইউনিভার্সিটিতে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' বইয়ের প্রকাশনা উৎসব, Natunbarta, 20 August 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
  17. ↑ সরকারের বিরুদ্ধে সোচ্চার হতে তরুণদের আহ্বান ফখরুলের, Prothom Alo, 23 November 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08


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