Badiul Alam Majumdar (born February 1946) is a Bangladeshi economist, activist 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). In 2024, Majumdar was tasked by the Bangladesh interim government to oversee reforms of the county's electoral system after the end of

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's authoritarian regime. Badiul's biography, ''Today I Saw a Revolution: From Grassroots to Global Change: The Badiul Majumdar Story'' was published in October, 2024.

Early life

Majumdar was born in February 1946 at Polaiya village at

Laksham Upazila Laksam () is an upazila of Comilla District in the division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. This upazila is located just 29 kilometers south of Cumilla City, on the banks of the transboundary Dakatia River. Laksam is known as the birthplace of Nawab ...

Comilla Comilla (), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gomti River in eastern Bangladesh. Comilla was one of the cities of ancient Bengal. It was once the capital of Tripura kingdom. Comilla Airport is located in the Duli ...

of the then

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(now

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).The period in which Baidul was born was also known as the Bengal famine, where three million people died of hunger. He completed his

Higher Secondary School Certificate Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Higher Secondary School Certificate, Higher Secondary Education Certificate (HSEC) or Intermediate Examination is a secondary education qualification in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is equivalent to the f ...

in 1962 from and graduated from

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka was founded in 1921 ...

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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Majumdar, Badiul Alam 1946 births Living people People from Laksam Upazila Bangladeshi economists University of Dhaka alumni Claremont Graduate University alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni Bangladeshi activists