Saiful Majid

Professor Saiful Majid is considered by many in the academic field in Bangladesh as one of the most senior and premier academic of the country. Has recently successfully completed his Directorship of The Insitute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka.Currently working as a Selection Grade Professor (senior most level of Professorship at the public universities in Bangladesh). He has held a number of senior management and academic positions that include Chairperson, Executive MBA and BBA Programs spanned over 10 years, and also as Chairperson, Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development.

Saiful received the Senior Fulbright Fellowship Award from the Department of State, USA in 2009, and successfully completed the same in 2010. Also worked as the Wells-Ghani Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2015. Received Leadership Education Award in 7th Asia’s Academic Excellence Award Ceremony in Singapore, sponsored by World Education Congress and CMO Council Asia in August 2016. Also received Bangladesh Education Leadership Award in2018. Worked as the Vice Chancellor of Eastern University, Dhaka in 2010-2011. Also worked as the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Eastern University from 2003- 2009. Currently working as a member of the Board of Trustees of Eastern University. Has a multi-dimensional professional career having been involved in teaching, consultancy and research works since 1980.

He attained his Ph.D. (Business Administration) from the University of Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany in July 1987, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education and International Development from the University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany in October 1987, and an MBA from the University of Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany in 1983. Also has an M.Sc. in Economics (with Distinction) from the Astrakhan Technical University, Russian Federation in 1979. 2 Received a Gold Medal for securing the highest marks among 33,000 candidates, Humanities Group, of the School Secondary Certificate Examination, Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in 1969.

He has gained extensive research and consultancy work experiences as Capacity Development, Training and Testing, Business Development, Monitoring and Evaluation and SME Sector in Bangladesh. Other areas of specialization include Social Sector Development (particularly in the areas of education, poverty, socio-economic condition analysis etc.). Has worked as Team Leader in various WB, UNDP, UNICEF, Government of Bangladesh, FRG, UK Government sponsored projects. Has a good number of research publications in reputed national and international research journals. Moreover, has also excellent proficiency (writing and reading) in Bangla, English, German and Russian languages. As the Team Leader successfully completed the project on Development of a Sustainable Business Model for Union Digital Centres (UDCs) in Bangladesh, sponsored by the a2i Project of the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh (GoB) in 2017. Has been working as a Member, National Steering Board (NSB), Water Resources Group (WRG) for Bangladesh (Gazetted by the Honourable Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Bangladesh) since 2016.