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Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid, also known as Dr KAS Murshid, is a Bangladeshi researcher and former director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[1] He is a director of Prime Bank.[2]
Murshid was born in 1951 to Bengali family of Khans from the village of Nasirabad in Nabinagar, Comilla district.[3] He was a son of Khan Sarwar Murshid and Nurjahan Murshid.[4] His father was a member of the planning commission of Mujibnagar government and confidante of Tajuddin Ahmed and his mother was a member of parliament.[5] He studied economics at the University of Dhaka.[6] He got his PhD from the Faculty of Politics and Economics at the University of Cambridge in 1985.[7][8] His PhD thesis was on food policy.[7]
In the late 1970s, Murshid joined Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies as a researcher.[6]
In 2010, Murshid edited Challenges in Boosting International Migration from Bangladesh which was written by Kazi Iqbal and Mohammad Yunus and published by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[9]
Murshid retired in 2012 from Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He has worked at Asian Development Bank based in Cambodia[10] and United Nations Development Programme.[6]
Murshid was appointed the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies on 9 April 2015.[6] He co-wrote a book with Muhammad Yunus called Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh and published in 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization.[11]
Dr Binayak Sen replaced Murshid on 1 April 2021 as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[12] Under Murshid the institute had climbed to 94 on the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index of the University of Pennsylvania.[13] He edited two books, Securing Food For All in Bangladesh and Agricultural Transformation and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Essays in Memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain, which were published by The University Press Limited in 2021.[14][15]
Murshid wrote The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.[16] In 2024, he described the national budget of Bangladesh as a fictitious budget.[17]
Murshid is married to Shameem Subrana, singer.[18] His son, Shabab Murshid, died at the age of 15 while studying at the International School of Phnom Penh and he founded the Shabab Murshid Foundation in his memory.[18] His elder sister is Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid, senior lecturer of King's College London.[5][19] His other sister Sharmeen Murshid is a member of the advisory council of the Bangladesh interim government.[5][20] His brother Kumar Murshid is a leftist politician in the United Kingdom who was formerly Labour Party.[5][21]
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