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01: A.K Azad

Born
A.K Azad comes of a respectable Muslim family of Jhiltuli, Faridpur on December 31, 1959.
His fathers name is Late Alhaj MA Aziz who was a respected personality among the
people of Faridpur.
Education
This talented and self determined industrialist. Mr. Azad did his [Link] Honors in Applied
Physics in 1983 from University of Dhaka.
Early Career
After completion his higher education Mr. Azad did not try to have any government job
rather he engaged himself with business. Despite having many impediments as well as
problems in his business Mr. Azad overcome it with courage and by applying his merit and
perseverance he established a business hub namely Ha-Meem Group of Companies
and since inception he has been carrying out his responsibilities as its Managing Director.
Meanwhile Ha-Meem Group of Companies has earned name and fame both at home and
abroad. The uninterrupted continuation of this group is moving forward to the
industrialization of the country and at the same time it has been contributing enormously in
the economic growth of the country also. Mr. A.K Azad does not think the initiative of
commerce and industry only based on prot; he considers it the best way for resolving the
unemployment problems also. It seems to him if the private entrepreneurs are not coming
forward to industrializations, the country might lag behind and the rate of unemployment
people could have been increased many folds.
Recognition
. Mr. A.K Azad is one of those who have been playing a pivotal role to make an industrialized
Bangladesh. A very young, energetic and sincere industrialist is the Chairman & Managing
Director of Ha-Meem Group of Companies, one of the leading business conglomerates of the
country. Under the dynamic leadership of Mr. A.K Azad, this group has been contributing
signicantly in a bid to expand RMG sector to a great extent. It is worth mentioning that
once this country was famous for textile industry and especially for Moslin, this
country was very well-known elsewhere in the world. But later on the British rulers and their
allies hatched conspiracy to destroy the famous Moslin. Mr. A.K Azad is one of them
who saved this industry during its bad days. Many entrepreneurs of RMG sector were scared
about the post cota free situation but during these periods Mr. A.K Azad along with his fellow
entrepreneurs moved forward with strong determination and faced the situation boldly. Now
meeting the local demand the Bangladeshi RMG products are being exported to many
countries across the globe including Europe and America and earning huge amount of (over
75%) foreign currencies. Mr. A.K Azad is playing a vital role to create markets of textile
industry in other countries across the world.
Philanthropy
Alongside trade, commerce and industry Mr. A.K Azad is also involved in newspaper industry.
He is the founder and publisher of The Daily Samakal, a leading Bengali Daily of the country.
He has also been contributing signicantly in education sector. His father late MA Aziz was
very much well known a social worker and education loving and in recognition of his
contribution the people of his locality has established a High School after his name. Mr. AK
Azad is also a social worker. He has extended his support and cooperation in many
educational institutions in the form of contribution and scholarship and he has
helped to established many socio-cultural organization so far.
Honor and Awards

A man of versatile qualities Mr. A.K Azad does not think only for his own business
organization. He always thinks about the prospects and problems of the overall business and
industry of the country. He was the president of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) for
the two consecutive periods. Mr. Azad is the president Federation of Bangladesh Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).He has also been honored by many socio-cultural
organizations for his outstanding contributions to the growth of our national economy.

02: Samson H. Chowdhury

Born
Samson H. Chowdhury was born in 25 September 1925 into Pabna Bangladesh. He was an
entrepreneur in Bangladesh. He was a Chairman of Astras Ltd. and Square (Bangladesh).

Education
Samson H. Chowdhury was born on 25 September 1925. He studied at Senior Cambridge.
He completed a management training course jointly sponsored and conducted by University
of Dhaka and Harvard University.
Work
After completing his education he returned to what was then East Pakistan and settled in
Ataikula village in the Pabna district, where his father was working as a medical ocer in an
outdoor dispensary. In 1952 he started a small pharmacy in Ataikula village which is about
160 km o capital Dhaka in the north-west part of Bangladesh.
.
He served as a vice president of the Baptist World Alliance from 1985 to 1990. In addition to
being a BWA vice president, Chowdhury served in other areas of the global Baptist
organization, including on the BWA General Council, the Executive Committee, the Baptist
World Aid Committee, the Promotion and Development Committee, and the Memorial
Committee. Chowdhury was elected president of the Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship
(BBCF) a dozen times, and was honorary general secretary for 14 years, between 1956 and
1969. He was a president of both the National Church Council of Bangladesh and the
National Evangelical Alliance.
Recognition
Chowdhury was recognized as a Global Business Leader in his country. He had been
awarded with various national and international recognitions from various business
associations. He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh.
Chowdhury ventured into a partnership pharmaceutical company with three of his friends in
1958. When asked why the name SQUARE was chosen he recalled: We named it
SQUARE because it was started by four friends and also because it signies accuracy and
perfection meaning quality[ as they committed in manufacturing quality products. That
company is, as of 2012, a publicly listed diversied group of companies employing more
than 28,000 people. The current yearly group turnover is 616 million USD.
Positions
Chairman, Square Group.
Chairman, Mutual Trust Bank board of directors Chairman, Astras Ltd.
Honorary Member, Kurmitola Golf Club.
Former Vice President, Baptist World Alliance, 1985-1990 Former Chairmen, Micro
Industries Development & Services (MIDAS).
Chairman, Transparency International, Bangladesh Chapter, 20042007.
President, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Dhaka in 1996 and 1997.
Vice-President: International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh.
Former Director, the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industries
(FBCCI).
Member, Executive Committee of Bangladesh French Chamber of Commerce and
Industry...
Director, Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh.

Chairman, Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd.

Member, Advisory Committee of the Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical
Industries.
Founder President, Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies.
Honor and Awards
Business Executive of the Year by American Chamber in Bangladesh in 1998.
Best Entrepreneur of the Country for the year 20002001 by the Daily Star and
DHL Worldwide Express. "Special contribution in country's industrial and commercial sectors
for the year 2003" by "Mercantile Bank Award 2003" For Uncompromising Business Ethics,
Honesty & Transparency of the year 2005 by "Banker's Forum Award - 2005". Recipient of
ICAB National Award Best Published Accounts and Reports 2006 in the Manufacturing
Sector. Recipient of NBR Award one of the Highest Tax-Payers in 2007-2008. Recognized
by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) as one of the top ten tax payers of the country since
2005. Recipient of CIP (Industry) 2009-2010 status by the Government of The Peoples
Republic of Bangladesh.
Death
Samson H. Chowdhory was died 5 January 2012 Singapore & his aged 86. He was one of the
best entrepreneurs of Bangladesh.

03: Dr. Muhammad Yunus

Born
Dr. Mohammod Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Muslim family in the village of Bathua,
by the Boxirhat Road in Haathajari, Chittagong, inBangladesh. His father was Hazi Dula Mia
Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sua Khatun.
Early life and education
His early childhood years were spent in the village. In 1944, his family moved to the city of
Chittagong, and he was shifted to Lamabazar Primary School from his village school. By
1949, his mother was aicted with psychological illness. Later, he passed the matriculation
examination from Chittagong Collegiate School securing the 16th position among 39,000
students in East Pakistan. In 1957, he enrolled in the department of economics at Dhaka
University and completed his BA in 1960 and MA in 1961.
After graduation
During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Yunus founded a citizen's committee and ran
the Bangladesh Information Center, with other Bangladeshis living in the United States, to
raise support for liberation. He also published the Bangladesh Newsletter from his home in
Nashville. After the War, Yunus returned to Bangladesh and was appointed to the
government's Planning Commission headed by Nurul Islam. He found the job boring and
resigned to join Chittagong University as head of the Economics department. He became
involved with poverty Reduction after observing the famine by 1974, and established a rural
economic program as a research project. In 1975, he developed a Nabajug (New Era)
Tebhaga Khamar (three share farm) which the government adopted as the Packaged Input
Programme. In order to make the project more eective, Yunus and his associates proposed
the Gram Sarkar (the village government) programme.
Early career
In 1976, during visits to the poorest households in the village of Jobra near Chittagong
University, Yunus discovered that very small loans could make a disproportionate dierence
to a poor person. Jobra women who made bamboo furniture had to take out usurious loans
for buying bamboo, to pay their prots to the moneylenders. His rst loan, consisting of
US$27.00 from his own pocket, was made to 42 women in the village, who made a net prot
of BDT 0.50 (US$0.02) each on the loan. Accumulated through many loans, this vastly
improving Bangladesh's ability to export and import as it did in the past, resulting in a
greater form of globalization and economic status. Dr. Yunus believed that given the chance
the poor will repay the borrowed money and hence microcredit could be a viable business
model.
Yunus nally succeeded in securing a loan from the government Janata Bank to lend it to the
poor in Jobra in December 1976. The institution continued to operate by securing loans
from other banks for its projects. By 1982, the bank had 28,000 members. On 1 October
1983 the pilot project began operations as a full-edged bank and was renamed the
Grameen Bank (Village Bank) to make loans to poor Bangladeshis. Yunus and his colleagues
encountered everything from violent radical leftists to the conservative clergy who told
women that they would be denied a Muslim burial if they borrowed money from the Grameen
Bank.
Recognition
Muhammad Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Grameen Bank, for
their eorts to create economic and social development. In the prize announcement The
Norwegian Nobel Committee mentioned:
Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions
into practical action for the benet of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh, but also in
many other countries. Loans to poor people without any nancial security had appeared to

be an impossible idea.
Muhammad Yunus was the rst Bangladeshi and third Bengali to ever get a Nobel Prize.
After receiving the news of the important award, Yunus announced that he would use part of
his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost,
high-nutrition food for the poor; while the rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital
for the poor in Bangladesh.
Publications
Three Farmers of Jobra; Department of Economics, Chittagong University; 1974
Planning in Bangladesh: Format, Technique, and Priority, and Other Essays; Rural
Studies Project, Department of Economics, Chittagong University; 1976
Jorimon and Others: Faces of Poverty (co-authors: Saiyada Manajurula Isalama, Arifa
Rahman); Grameen Bank; 1991
Grameen Bank, as I See it; Grameen Bank; 1994 etc
Honor and Awards
He is one of only seven persons to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal Other notable awards include the Ramon
Magsaysay Award in 1984, the World Food Prize, the International Simon Bolivar Prize
(1996), the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord and the Sydney Peace Prize in 1998, and
the Seoul Peace Prize in 2006. Additionally, Dr. Yunus has been awarded 50 honorary
doctorate degrees from universities across 20 countries, and 113 international awards from
26 dierent countries including state honors from 10 countries. Bangladesh government
brought out a commemorative stamp to honor his Nobel Awar
04: Atiur Rahman
Atiur Rahman is the Governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country. A
development economist of Bangladesh, he is noted for writing on popular economic issues,
and has written a good number of books both in Bengali and English.
Early life
From a very humble background Atiur Rahman rose to the top echelon of the society. He was
born in a remote village in Jamalpur district in 1951. His father who was a landless farmer
had received no schooling in his life. Atiur went to the school but had to quit after grade-III
because of poverty. However his strong determination and will power made him conquer all
the barriers. He had to sit for the class IV nal examinations without attending any class.
But when the result came out, his name topped the list.
Education
Atiur's mother came o a better background and was literate. It was she who was Atiur's
rst teacher. Atiur went to the village school till gradeVI. After grade-VI he wanted to go to a
Cadet College for better education. Eventually he got admitted to the prestigious Mirzapur
Cadet College of the-then Mymensingh in grade-VII. A school teacher of the village Foyez
Moulavi collected charity to facilitate his admission. Considering his nancial inability, the
college authority granted him free tuition. Thus he could continue at the college from where
he passed the SSC and HSC examinations with outstanding results securing positions in the
merit list both times. He went to the Dhaka University for studying economics. After
obtaining BSS and MSS in Economics, he applied for Commonwealth scholarship and was
successful. He went to SOAS, London, from where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1977. His Ph.D.
thesis later came out as a book under the title "Peasants and Classes" published by the
Oxford University Press, which is much admired by the economists worldwide and is being
used as a reference book in many universities throughout the world.
Work
On 29 April 2009, he was appointed as the governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank
of the country, for tenure of four years. He assumed charge on 3 May 2009. He is the 10th
governor of the Bangladesh Bank, succeeding Dr. Salehhddin Ahmed. Till then he was a
professor in the department of Development Studies at the Dhaka University. Before that he
had worked at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in dierent capacities for
nearly 28 years and retired as Senior Research Fellow on 4.4.2006. He also served as
director of the state-owned Sonali Bank, the largest in Bangladesh. In 2001, government
appointed him as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Janata Bank, the secondlargest in the country. In 1994, he established a development NGO under the title Unnayan
Samannay which grew into an excellent centre for research, development and cultural
learning in Bangladesh. He was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Shamunnay till
taking up the job of the governor of Bangladesh. In 2006 he joined the Dhaka University in
the department of Development Studies as a professor. Also, he has played a major role in
the much publicized microcredit revolution in Bangladesh, erving in Mohammed Yunus'
National Task Force on Poverty Eradication. He worked as Project Director or Team Leader of
as many as twenty international and fty national development projects of the country. He
was also involved in the management of a number of socio-cultural organizations including
Credit Development Forum, Monajatuddin Smriti Sangsad, Bangladesh Economic Association
and Asiatic Society and BangIa Academy.
Poverty alleviation
Atiur Rahman has distinguished himself as an expert on poverty alleviation. It is his pet area
and he has been engaged in rst hand research to nd the causes of poverty and means of
remedy. One of the most important researches is his work on char (shoal) dwellers and
poverty alleviation.
Publications
Bengali language
Agami Diner Bangladesh: Ekusa sataker Unnayana Bhabana, Pathak Samabes, ISBN
984-8120-39-4
Alo andharer Bangladesh: Manab Unnayaner Sambhabana O Cyalenja, Mawla Bradarsa,
ISBN 984-410-337-1

Apaunnayan: Samakalin Bangladesher Arthaniti, Samajniti, Pyapirasa, ISBN

984-8065-66-0
Janaganer Bajet: Amsagrahanamulaka Pariprekshita, Pathaka Samabesa, ISBN
984-8120-28-9
Awards and recognition
Atiur Rahman was awarded the Atish Dipankar Gold Medal in 2000 and the Chandrabati
Gold Medal in 2008.

05: Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Born
Sir Fazlay Hasan Abed Was Born in1936 Baniachong British India now in Habiganj, His
Father Name Siddiq Hasan & his Mother Name Syeda Sufya Khatun.
Education
He left home to attend University of Glasgow, where, and in an eort to break away from
tradition and do something radically dierent - he studied Naval Architecture. But there was
little work in ship building in Pakistan and a career in Naval Architecture would make
returning home dicult. With that in mind, Abed joined the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants in London, completing his professional education in 1962.
Work
Abed returned to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to join Shell Oil Company and quickly rose
to head its nance division. His time at Shell exposed Abed to the inner workings of a large
conglomerate and provided him with insight into corporate management, which would
become invaluable to him later in life.
It was during his time at Shell that the devastating cyclone of 1970 hit the eastern coastal
regions of the country, killing 300,000 people. The cyclone had a profound eect on Abed in the face of such devastation, the comforts and perks of a corporate executive's life ceased
to have any attraction for him. Together with friends, Abed created HELP, an organization
that provided relief and rehabilitation to the worst aected in the island of Manpura, which
had lost three quarters of its population in the disaster.
Soon after, Bangladeshs own struggle for independence from Pakistan began and
circumstances forced Abed to leave the country. He found refuge in England, where he set
up Action Bangladesh to lobby for his countrys independence with the governments of
Europe.
Formation of BRAC
When the war ended in December 1971, Abed sold his at in London and returned to the
newly independent Bangladesh to nd his country in ruins. In addition, the 10 million
refugees who had sought shelter in India during the war had started to return home. Their
relief and rehabilitation called for urgent eorts. Abed decided to use the funds he had
generated from selling his at to initiate his own. He selected the remote region of Sulla in
northeastern Bangladesh to start his work. This work led him and the organization he
founded, BRAC, to deal with the long-term task of improving the living conditions of the
rural poor.
In a span of only three decades, BRAC grew to become the largest development organization
in the world in terms of the scale and diversity of its interventions. As BRAC grew, Abed
ensured that it continued to target the landless poor, particularly women, a large percentage
of who live below the poverty line with little or no access to resources or conventional
development eorts.
BRAC now operates in more than 69 thousand villages of Bangladesh and covers an
estimated 110 million people through its development interventions that range from primary
education, essential healthcare, agricultural support and human rights and legal services to
micronance and enterprise development. It is now considered the largest non-prot in the
world - both by employees and people served.
In 2002, BRAC went international by taking its range of development interventions to
Afghanistan. Since then, BRAC has expanded to a total of eight countries across Asia and
Africa, successfully adapting its unique integrated development model across varying
geographic and socioeconomic contexts.
Professional positions: last 10 years
Abed has held the following positions
2005 Commissioner, UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP)
2002 - Global Chairperson, International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions
(INAFI) International.
2001 - Chairman, Board of Directors, BRAC Bank Limited.
2001 - President, The Governing Board of BRAC University.
2000 - Chairman, Governing Body, BRAC.
2000 - Chair, Finance & Audit Committee, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),
Los Banos, Philippines.
Awards
The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award, 1990
The Maurice Pate Award by UNICEF, 1992
The Ol of Palme Prize, 2001
The Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Schwab Foundation, 2002
The International Activist Award by the Gleitsman Foundation, 2003
The UNDP Mahbub ul Haq Award, 2004.
The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership, 2007.

The inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award, 2007.

The David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award, 2008.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), 2009.
Honorary LLD, University of Bath, 2010.
The WISE Prize for Education, 2011.
06: Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher
Prof. Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Chairman, Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. the rst
and leading Islamic Bank (based on Islamic Shariah) of South - East Asia was born in a
respectable Muslim family of Companyganj of Noakhali Dist. in the year 1948.
Early life
He achieved his Masters Degree in English literature from the University of Rajshahi. He
started his professional life with teaching at Khandaker Mosharrof Hossain Degree College in
the early seventies. Later he joined at the Royal Embassy of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in
Dhaka, Bangladesh as the Secretary and performed duties for about 13 years. He is now the
Managing Director of Ibn Sina Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a prominent Pharmaceutical Company
in Bangladesh.
Work
He is the Chairman of Islamic Banks Consultative Forum (IBCF), Industrialists and
Businessmen Welfare Foundation (IBWF). He is the Vice Chairman of Bangladesh Association
of Banks (BAB). He is the Advisor of Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries.
He is also a Board Member of General Council for Islamic Banks & Financial Institutions
(CIBAFI). He is an honoured personality for his pioneer steps in establishment of Islamic
banking systems as well as Islamic Economics.
Professor Abduz Zaher was the Director of IBBL in dierent times and was the Chairman of
the Executive Committee. He is a Founding Member of Fouad Al Khateeb Foundation, Badhsa
Faisal Institute, Ibn Sina Trust Dhaka, Manarat International School & College, Ibn Tymia
College, Islamic Education Society, Bangladesh Islamic Centre and Syndicate member of the
Manarat International University of Bangladesh.
Social work
Professor Zaher is playing vital role in social welfare related works. He is related with
founding and development of hundreds of educational institutions. He patronized to
establish many renowned private hospitals and helped thousands of people for treatment.
He helped many poor people to avail housing facility, many poor students in their education
and marriage of many poor brides.

07: Ranada prasad Saha

Born
Ranadaprasad Saha was born 15 November 1896 Savar near Dhaka and also known as RP
Saha and Ranoda Proshad Shaha, was a famous Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi
businessman and philanthropist.
Early life
Ranada Prasad father Debendranath hailed from Mirjapur in Tangail Subdivission in
Mymensingh district. At the age of seven he lost his mother who died of tetanus during
childbirth. Being born into a poor family he didn't receive much of an education. At the age
of sixteen he ed to Kolkata in search of a new future.
Early Career
Ranada Prasad joined the Bengali Ambulance Corps and went to the War. He was rst posted
in Mesopotamia and then in Karachi. As reward for his services rendered to the wounded,
Ranada Prasad was commissioned in 1916 in the newly formed Bengal Regiment. After the
war was over, he met George V. He got a job in the Indian Railway department as a war
veteran.
In 1932 he lost the job and started a small business in salt and coal in Kolkata. He bought a
ship named 'Bengal River'. Ranada Prasad was appointed one of the agents to buy food
grains for the Government. He bought three powerhouses at Narayangonj, Mymensinghand,
Comilla and owned the 'George Anderson Company' of Narayanganj that used to make jute
bales. He also started a leather business.
Philanthropy
Ranada Prasad, was a fairly rich man, dedicated himself to the service of the suering
humanity. In 1938 he opened a charitable hospital at his native village Mirzapur on the river
Lauhajang. During the famine of 1943-44 he maintained 275 gruel houses to feed the
hungry for 8 months. On 27 July 1944 the hospital which had 20 beds was opened by
Richard Casey, Baron Casey, the then Governor of Bengal. He named it 'Kumudini Hospital',
after his mother Kumudini whose suering from lack of medical care inspired him to
establish a hospital for the poor, so that people, especially women, would not suer the way
his mother had. He didn't care about death rates as many hospitals did and made sure no
one was ever turned back. The Maternity Wing of the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital was
established with his nancial support.

To spread female education he founded in 1942 a fully residential school at Mirzapur and
named it 'Bharateswari Bidyapith' after Bharateswari Devi, his grandmother. In 1945 this
institution was renamed 'Bharateshwari Homes'. It has 1200 seats as of 2010 and is
rerenownd for producing well-rounded, socially responsible students who have gone on to
excel in their respective elds. Founded the Komodini Collage at Tangail in 1943 and the
'Debendra College' at Manikgonjin 1944 to commemorate his mother and father
respectively. He set up the 'Mirzapur Pilot Boys' School', 'Mirzapur Pilot Girls' School', and
'Mirzapur Degree College'.
In 1947, R.P. Saha placed all his companies in a trust by the name of 'Kumudini Welfare
Trust (KWT)', with the earnings from the income generating activities such as jute baling
press and a river transportation business, being used to run the welfare activities.
Awards and honors
In appreciation of his humanitarian work the British Government conferred on RP Saha the
title of Ray Bahadur In 1978 he was posthumously awarded the Independence Day Award
by the Government of Bangladesh as recognition of his social works.
Death
In April 1971, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh, despite a good working relationship
with the Pakistani authorities as well as all preceding and successive governments, Saha,
with his 26 year old son Bhavani Prasad Saha, was picked up by the Pakistani occupation
army. They returned home after about a week, but were picked up again a day later on 7
May, after which they were never heard from again.

08: Iqbal Z. Quadir

Iqbal Z. Quadir born August 13, 1958 in Jessore, Bangladesh, founder of Gonofone and
Grameenphone. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Legatum Center for
Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
member of Advisory Board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
Early years
Quadir was born in Jessore, Bangladesh and moved to the United States in 1976 and later
became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He passed his Secondary School Certicate from Jhenidah
Cadet College, Bangladesh. He received a B.S. with honors from Swarthmore College
(1981), an M.A. (1983) and an M.B.A. (1987) from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Finance, development, and entrepreneurial success
Quadir served as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, D.C., (19831985), an
associate at Coopers & Lybrand (19871989), an associate of Security Pacic Merchant
Bank (19891991), vice president of Atrium Capital Corporation (19911993), and
founded Grameenphone in Bangladesh during 1993-1999. He served in the management
and on the Board of Grameenphone during 1996-1999.
Quadirs vision, which was deemed radical at the time, was to create universal access to
telephone service in Bangladesh and to increase self-employment opportunities for its rural
poor. In 1993, Quadir started a New York-based company named Gonofone (Bengali for
phones for the masses), which later became the launch-pad for Grameenphone.
Currently the largest telephone company in Bangladesh with nearly sixteen million
subscribers, Grameenphone provides telephone access to more than 100 million rural
people living in 60,000 villages and generates revenues close to $1 billion annually. With
infrastructure investments of more than $1 billion, Grameenphone is providing cellular
coverage throughout Bangladesh.
Quadir's vision of a large-scale commercial project led him to organize a global consortium
involving Telenor, Norways leading telecommunications company; an aliate of microcredit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize);
Marubeni Corp. in Japan; Asian Development Bank in the Philippines; Commonwealth
Development Corp. in the United Kingdom; and International Finance Corp. and Gonofone in
the United States. He attracted these investors by complementing his vision of connecting
all of Bangladesh with a practical distribution scheme whereby village entrepreneurs, backed
by micro-loans, could retail telephone services to their surrounding communities. In fact,
Quadir coined the phrase connectivity is productivity to explain the unique impact of
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile telephones, in
improving economic eciency.[2][3]
Grameenphones success has been lauded as a model for a novel approach to improving
economic opportunity and connectivity and empowering citizens in poor countries, through
protable investments in technology. According to Economist Jerey Sachs Grameenphone
opened the worlds eyes to expanding the use of modern telecommunications
technologies in the worlds poorest places. [4]
From 2001-2005, Quadir served as a fellow at the Harvard's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for

Business and Government, and at the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young (now Capgemini). As a lecturer, he taught graduate-level courses on the eects of
technology in developing countries at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Quadir subsequently moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where in 2007 he
founded the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship.
Quadir coined the phrase invisible leg to describe how technological innovations change
economies in terms of the distribution of economic and political inuence.[5][6]
Recognition
Quadir's work has been recognized by leaders and organizations worldwide, with invitations
to speak at many forums, including the World Bank, United Nations, World Economic Forum,
and Aspen Institute. In 1999, Quadir was selected Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum based in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2006, he became the 12th recipient of
the prestigious Science, Education and Economic Development (SEED) Award from the
Rotary Club of Metropolitan Dhaka, for initiating universal telephone coverage to
Bangladesh. He appeared on CNN and PBS and was proled in feature articles in the Harvard
Business Review (Bottom-Up Economics, Aug 2003, & Breakthrough Ideas for 2004, Feb
2004), Financial Times, The Economist, and The New York Times, and in several books. In
Spring 2007, Wharton Alumni Magazine selected Quadir for its list of 125 Inuential People
and Ideas. In 2011, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from
Swarthmore College [2] and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Case Western
Reserve University.

09: Mr. Abdul Khaleque Pathan

Mr. Abdul Khaleque Pathan, owner of Khaleque Group of Industries hails from Konabari,
Gazipur, Dhaka. The Enterprises under the ownership of Khaleque Group are: Khaleque
Knitting & Garments Industries Pvt Ltd., .Keya Cosmetics, Khaleque & Co, Bandhu Bricks,
Keya Detergents Ltd.,Khaleque Trading House, Poly Advertising Firm, Keya Spinning, and
Keya Sweater Ltd.
Early Life:
Mr. Khaleque was born on the 14th May, 1959 at Jarun, Konabari, Gazipurdistrict of Dhaka.
His father was Mr. Abdul Pathan and Begum Alek jan was his mother. Abdul Khaleque Pathan
started his education in the Hatimara High School from which in 1979, he passed the S.S.C
examination. For nancial reasons, he could not continue his studies. Mr Abdul Khaleque
Pathan had early marriage around his twenties.
First Entry into Business:
Since boyhood, Abdul Khaleque Pathanhad entrepreneurial vision. After the school hours,
when his classmates used to play in theevening, Abdul Khaleque Pathan would sell
chocolates, cigarettes etc. from which trade he saved some money to buy chicken, ducks
and goats. Abdul Khaleque Pathan then would buy chickens from one market at a lower
price to sell the same in another market at a higher price. Thus, he earned some money and
with that he along with one of his friends, started partnership business of chickens. His
partner once sold all the chickens bought and kept in the partners house for resale
without ABDUL KHALEQUE PATHANs knowledge but pretended that these were eaten up
by foxes, late at night. But after some time, ABDUL KHALEQUE PATHAN came to know the
truth and could realize that his partner deceived him with false information. This made him
upset & aggrieved and thus the partnership was terminated and Abdul Khaleque Pathan lost
all his savings that he invested in partnership business with his friend.
Hurdles faced and overcome
Mr. ABDUL KHALEQUE PATHAN, when initially started his brickelds, some local people out
of jealousy disturbed him very much. After wards, when he started Keya Soap Factory, one of
his competitors led suit against him.
He was taken to the custody to socially harass him. His competitors and personal enemies,
in all, led 12 suits; But ABDUL KHALEQUE PATHAN was proved innocent in the court of law.
Interestingly, Abdul Khaleque Pathan led not a single case against any such persons, or
even in any way he tried to harass any of them. The fact is that Mr. ABDUL KHALEQUE
PATHANs products are increasingly gaining markets compared to those of his
competitors. He was never cruel to take revenge to his enemies rather all through nice to
those local people who in various ways were previously hostile and harassed him in his
initial days of business but later, whenever approached their wards were given suitable jobs
in his rms without any hesitation.
Social Contribution

Abdul Khaleque Pathan helped to promote a college in his locality named Hatimara
College in which he donated Tk. 14 lacs to construct a college building. In Hatimara
School in which Abdul Khaleque Pathan studied, here gladly contributes Tk. 10,000 per
month as a part of the salaries for theteachers. Besides these, Abdul Khaleque Pathan
donated Tk. 2 lacs of which Tk. 1 lac in cash and the another in bricks for the newly
established Konabari College in addition to making regular monthly donation of Tk. 25
thousands towards payment for the salaries of the college teachers. Abdul Khaleque Pathan
contributes Tk 5 thousand per month as regular donation to the Dhaka Allergy Hospital.
From the income of the brickelds, Abdul Khaleque Pathan as a regular feature distributes
Tk. 1 lac per month among the rural poor of the locality. He is known to have donated
substantially in the development of a number of mosques, madrashas, and orphanages.
Recognition
Since 1996, Abdul Khaleque Pathan has been recognized as one of the Commercially
Important Persons [CIP]. Mr. ABDUL KHALEQUE PATHAN, one of the reputed entrepreneurs
in industrial sector for his excellent export performance, is awarded the National Export
Trophy for the year 1996-97 by the government of Bangladesh.

10: Mr. Mozammel Houque

Mr. Mozammel Houque the Managing director of Bangas-Tallu Industry Group was a very
poor man. He became Hero-from-Zero. How it is happened it describe in below:
Early life
Mr. Mozammel Houque is the eldest of the ve issues of his parents with four sisters. They
were very poor. His used to collect dry leaves from the forest with which his mother had to
prepare daily food. Many days his family members had to remain unfed and starved, living in
a dilapidated house, timely repair of which was not possible to be done for want of required
amount of money. From this fact, one can imagine the level of poverty in which MHs
family had to ght to out to live really very hard days they had to cross in those days.
Education
He started his education in a village maqtab. He was quite brilliant student and that was why
with stipends, he could continue his studies till the college level. If he did not get
scholarship/stipend his student life would have been nished much earlier .MH as the only
son of his parents, had to shoulder the burden of the family in the absence of his father.
They had limited family properties, besides MH was then a unemployed young man. It was
really dicult for the family to manage daily express.
Work life
After coming to Chuadanga, he joined as a distillery agent in the Keru and Co., a private
company, at a salary of Tk. 67 per month. His work to mix water with sprite. The job was
very easy but as the assignment given was unfair, MH was feeling uncomfortable. As a
helper in the wine preparation process, MH was constantly suering from moral sense that
would keep him always in a depressed mood. At the time, for default of payment of land rent
popularly known as (Khajna), many land auctions were conducted by munseef courts. In
such an opportunity, MH purchased an area of land of 105 bighas with TK. 390 only. The
land area MH bought was full of water hyacinth. At that time, he did not have enough money
even to clean this low land. But afterwards that piece of land was instrumental to the
upward change of MH to prosperity and social prestige. Luck favored MH in the year after he
bought the [Link] 1957, MH resigned from Keru & co. and sold 50 bighas of low land at Tk.
9000 of which he purchased a house with Tk.3000 and used the rest of money to set up a
shoe store at Chuadanga [Link] became interested in contact business. But he had not
enough money for the purpose. When he was able to secure a contact, the local rich person
who promised to assist him nancially declined to do so, possibly at the inuence of some of

the local bad people. Atthis, he was in utter nancial crisis. But he did not leave the job that
he got as a contract rather he started the initial foundation of the contracted building work
with little saving that he made so long from his small shoe store.
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Actually I am scrolling down to nd the name of our honorable chairman Mr. Sabur Khan
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