Habibullah Bahar

Habibullah Bahar is the former Economic Advisor of Bangladesh Bank. He has about 35 years of experience in banking career at the Central Bank. He held the position of Agrani Bank Chair Professor at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM). He also held the position of Senior Economic Advisor, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI). He was the member of Board of Directors of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and Municipal Development Fund, Ministry of Finance and Member of Steering Committee and the Investment Committee of Bangladesh Bank. He has about 25 publications in the professional journals (one published by the United Nations, New York, 2002). He has several publications in different newspapers in different times particularly on money, banking and financial issues. He served as adjunct professor of Bangladesh University, South East University, Stamford University, East West University, Independent University Bangladesh where he taught subjects like Financial Analysis and Control, International Financial Management, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Monetary Theory and Practice, Bank Management etc.

Mr. Habibullah Bahar was born in 1953. He obtained his BA (Hons.) and MA degrees in Economics from the University of Dhaka. He completed his MA in Development Economics from the Centre for Development Economics (CDE), Williams College, Williamstown, USA and attended Certificate Course on Econometrics, Time Series and Financial Analysis, University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the life member of the Bangladesh Economic Association. He also took part in several trainings and international seminars in different countries like the USA, UK, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bhutan. As Economic Adviser of the central bank, he led the Bangladesh Bank delegation in discussions on different issues with visiting team from the IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNCTAD, UN-ESCAP and other missions.