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        Press Release  October 28, 2014   2013 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award  The  Bangladesh  Development  Initiative  (BDI),  a  non‐partisan  research  and  advocacy  group  of  independent scholars based in the United States, is pleased to announce that Professor Nurul  Islam,  Research  Fellow  Emeritus,  International  Food  Policy  Research  Institute  (IFPRI),  is  the  recipient of the 2013 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award.    The award established in 2012 is designed to “honor outstanding individuals who, through their  scholarly and/or policy and civic engagements, have contributed significantly to understanding  the challenges, and pursuing the ideals that would lead to the development of Bangladesh and  improving the quality of life for its citizens.”  Through the award, the Executive Committee of the BDI would like to recognize and celebrate  the work of a scholar of high reputation and integrity whose work has inspired others to develop  ideas through rigorous research and apply these for the betterment of the people of Bangladesh.   Throughout his long and distinguished career as an economist, researcher, social scientist and  public intellectual, Professor Islam has worked tirelessly to uphold the welfare and interest of  Bangladesh.  Through his many books, articles and speeches, he has contributed to a corpus of  knowledge that has improved our understanding of economic theory and planning, poverty, the  process of economic growth, and the role of politics in a society.    As an academic, Professor Islam had a brilliant career, and has earned a reputation as one of  world’s  leading  development  planners.    He  received  his  B.A.  and  an  M.A.  in  economics  from  Dhaka University (ranked first in first class), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard  University.  He  was  a  Nuffield  Foundation  Fellow  at  the  London  School  of  Economics  and  at  Cambridge University.  He served as a Rockefeller Fellow at the Netherlands School of Economics,  and  was  a  Fellow  at  St  Anthony's  College,  Oxford  University.  He  has  served  as  a  professor  of  economics  and  as  the  Chair  of  the  Department  of  Economics  at  Dhaka  University.  Among  his  twenty  nine  books  are:  Development  Planning  in  Bangladesh:  A  Study  in  Political  Economy,  published  by  UPL  in  1979  with  reprint  in  1993;  and  Making  of  a  Nation:  Bangladesh  —  An  Economist’s Tale, Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Ltd., 2003. 

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    Professor Islam has played an active role and has made many contributions outside the world of  academe.    He  has  served  as  the  Assistant  Director‐General,  Economic  and  Social  Policy  Department,  Food  and  Agriculture  Organization  (FAO);  as  the  Deputy  Chairman/Minister,  Bangladesh  Planning  Commission  Ministry,  Government  of  Bangladesh,  1972–75;  as  the  Chairman  of  the  Bangladesh  Institute  of  Development  Studies  (BIDS);  as  the  Director  of  the  Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. He served as a member and Chairman of the UN  Committee of Development Planning Policy; Member, UN Committee on Development Planning,  1974–77;  Member,  Executive  Committee,  Third  World  Forum,  1974–77;  Member,  Executive  Committee, International Economic Association (IEA), 1968–74; Treasurer, IEA, 1974–75. He also  served on the editorial board of The World Economy (1977–80) and on the advisory committee  of World Development (1977–97).  His role as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the newly established nation was  critical and historic.  Along with a distinguished cohort of fellow planners and economists, he led  the group in planning to rebuild the nation after the massive and sustained destruction during  the nine‐month long liberation war.  He was also a key player and possibly the youngest member  of the team of economists who advised Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on their analysis  and recommendations (Two Economies Thesis: The Road to Six Points) which became known as  the Six Point Movement that eventually culminated in the liberation of Bangladesh. He is the only  surviving member of the original group which first put forward the thesis.    Professor Islam has received a number of awards, including the Bangladesh Bank Award (2009)  for  his  original  contributions  to  theoretical  and  applied  development  economics  in  the  domestic, regional and international arena.  The BDI Lifetime Achievement award will be formally presented at BDI’s International Conference  organized  with  the  Institute  for  South  Asia  Studies  on  the  UC  Berkeley  campus,  tentatively  scheduled  for  November  2015.  As  the  winner  of  the  award,  Professor  Islam  will  have  the  opportunity to present a lecture on a subject of his choice. For more information on the planned  BDI International Conference 2015, please visit www.bdiusa.org or contact Dr. Munir Quddus,  President BDI; [email protected].    

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