Aminul Alam

Aminul Alam, currently Deputy Executive Director of BRAC, was born in 1949. He was educated at University of Dhaka, receiving a master’s in physics.

Mr. Alam has spent most of his career at BRAC, having joined as a Program Organizer in 1975. He continued as a Project Administrator, Regional Manager of the Rural Credit and Training Project, and Program Coordinator and Director of Field Operation of the Rural Development Program. In this position, Mr. Alam implemented the BRAC Textile Project and Dairy Project, as well as established BRAC Seed Production Farms and Seed Processing Plant.

Dr. AMR Chowdhury

Dr. AMR Chowdhury, currently Deputy Executive Director of BRAC, received his BA in Statistics from the University of Dhaka in 1976. He went on to receive a Ford Foundation fellowship to study MSc in Demography at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr. Chowdhury also completed a short course in Medical Anthropology.

Dr. Chowdhury joined BRAC in 1977 as statistician, and later worked as an Evaluation Manager of the oral rehydration therapy program that taught 12 million mothers in rural Bangladesh to administer an at-home treatment for diarrhea. Until recently he was Director of the Research and Evaluation Division. He worked as an Overseas Research Associate for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was a MacArthur Fellow at Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies, Founding Coordinator of the Working Group on Essential National Health Research in Bangladesh, and Principal Investigator for Bangladesh of the Social Science and Immunization Research Project.

In addition to his position as Deputy Executive Director of BRAC, Dr. Chowdhury is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is Co-Coordinator of the Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health for the United Nations Millennium Project, a member of the Academic Council of BRAC University, Adjunct Faculty of the School for International Training in Vermont, USA, as well as Project Director and Coordinator for numerous international and national development projects. Dr. Chowdhury is a member of numerous professional groups, and a prolific author of journal articles and books on health, primary education, and poverty alleviation.

** Former Deputy Executive Director, BRAC, Barrister Manzoor Hasan is currently the Director of the Centre for Governance Studies, BRAC University