Badiul Alam Majumdar (born February 1946) is a Bangladeshi economist, development worker,

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, local government and election expert. He is the vice president and country director of the US-based charity

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. He is the founder-secretary of a civil society organization named

Citizens for Good Governance (SHUJAN) Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (translation: Citizens for Good Governance) (SHUJAN) is an organization in Bangladesh. The word SHUJAN, is a Bengali word. It came from an sentence "''Shushanar Janniya Nagorik – SHUJAN''". The headquarter of this orga ...

Early life

Majumdar was born in February 1946 at Polaiya village at

Laksham Upazila Laksam ( bn, লাকসাম) is an upazila of Comilla District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Laksam is widely known as the birthplace of Nawab Faizunnesa Chowdhurani. History Laksam was made into an upazila in 1983. On 6 April ...

Comilla Comilla (; bn, কুমিল্লা, Kumillā, ), officially spelled Cumilla, is the fifth largest city of Bangladesh and second largest in Chittagong division. It is the administrative centre of the Comilla District. The name Comilla was ...

of the then

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(now

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). He completed his

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in 1962 from and graduated from

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in 1967. He earned his post graduate degree from the same university in 1968. He completed a graduate fellowship at

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from 1970 to 1971. Later, he obtained his

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degree in economics from

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Majumdar, Badiul Alam 1946 births Living people People from Comilla District Bangladeshi economists