Monzur Hossain

Vice-president

Dr. Monzur Hossain is Research Director, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)

Dr Hossain obtained Ph.D. in International Economics in March, 2007 from the National Graduate Institute for Policy studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan. With extensive research focus on evaluating and analyzing development interventions and economic policies, his area of interest mainly concentrates toward macro-financial domain. In particular, macroeconomics, international economics and financial economics are his core areas of interest. He has also interested on some emerging development issues pertaining to SME development, ICTs and knowledge economy, green finance and renewable energy.  He has participated and served as team leader in numerous professional research projects. He served as consultant for the UNDP, ADB, UNCTAD, EU, World Bank, JICA, International Growth Center (London School of Economics) etc. Before joining BIDS in 2008, he worked for Bangladesh Bank (central bank), Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, and taught Economics in some leading public and private universities in Bangladesh.  

He has held several visiting positions, such as Visiting Scholar at Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan (in 2010) and visiting Research Fellow at IDE-JETRO, Japan (during January-March, 2020). Currently he is a member of Executive Board of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies (acaes.us). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Bangladesh Development Studies” and the “International Journal of SME Development”. He also serves as a member of various committees of the government of Bangladesh under different Ministries and institutions.

Dr. Hossain has published extensively in internationally accredited journals including Economic Modelling, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Asian Economics, Local Government Studies, Asian Economic Papers, Bangladesh Development Studies, so on. He has also to his credit numerous other publications in the forms of research reports, and edited books. Recently he edited a book titled “Bangladesh’s Macroeconomic Policy” which was published by Palgrave Macmillan, in February 2020. He presented papers in many national and international academic conferences held in the USA, UK, Japan, Finland, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong, and in other countries.

He is the vice president of the Bangladesh Evaluation Society.