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Simeen Mahmud was a demographics researcher[1][2] and the lead researcher at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development at BRAC University.[3][4] She was a director of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[5] She was the coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation of BRAC University.[6] She headed the Gender Studies Cluster at BRAC University.[7]
Mahmud was the country coordinator for the Citizenship DRC.[8] She worked on the empowerment of women.[9] She was a researcher of gender studies.[10]
Mahmud's father was MN Huda, former vice president of Bangladesh and finance minister under President Ziaur Rahman, and her mother was Kulsum Huda.[11][12] Her siblings were Mirza Najmul Huda and Zareen Huda Ahmed.[13] She studied statistics at the University of Dhaka.[14] She studied medical demography at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[15][16] She was a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.[15][13]
In 1974, Mahmud became a staff demographer at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[17]
Mahmud retired from the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in 2008.[17] She was the director of the Population Studies Division of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.[17] She worked on the memoir of her father with her mother, Umme Kulsum Siddiqua Banu, who died in 2008.[18] She was the vice-president of the Dhaka University Statistics Department Alumni Association.[19]
Mahmud joined the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD).[13] She wrote The fabric of accountability in Bangladesh's garment industry for Open Democracy in 2009.[20] She signed a letter with other women researchers protesting the removal of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank.[21] The other signatories were Amena Mohsin, Farida Akhter, Firdous Azim, Hameeda Hossain, Mahera Khatun, Maleka Begum, Mahmuda Islam, Najma Siddiqui, Nashid Kamal, Perween Hasan, Rasheda K Chowdhury, Rizwana Hasan, Rounaq Jahan, Salma Ali, Salma Khan, Shaheen Anam, Shireen Huq, Tasnim Azim, and Tahrunessa Abdullah.[21] She signed another letter in 2012 condemning the restructuring of Grameen Bank.[22]
From 2014 to 2015, Mahmud was a member of the Economic and Political Citizenship working group at the Cord Network.[23] She collaborated on research with Naila Kabeer.[8] She was the coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation BRAC University.[24] She taught at BRAC University.[25]
Bibliography
- Women and Water-Pumps in Bangladesh: The Impact of Participation in Irrigation Groups on Women's Status.[26]
Mahmud was married to Wahiduddin Mahmud, economics professor at the University of Dhaka.[15] They had two sons and one daughter.[17]
Mahmud died on 18 March 2018 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[27][14]
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