Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan becomes IUB Pro-VC

Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan joined as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) from April 1.

He has been appointed as the Pro-VC of IUB by the President of Bangladesh and Chancellor of the Universities for a 4-year term, reads a press release.

Dr Niaz Ahmed Khan is a Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Development Studies of the University of Dhaka; Senior Academic Adviser of National Defense College, Senior Academic Adviser BRAC Institute of Governance and Development and Chairman of Bangladesh Tropical Forest Conservation (Arannayak) Foundation.

Professor Khan pursued higher education and research at the University of Oxford, the University of Wales Swansea and the Asian Institute of Technology.

His career reflects a rich blend of academic and practising development management experiences gained in Bangladesh, Thailand and the UK.

Besides serving as Bangladesh Country Representative of International Union for Conservation of Nature, some of his other former positions include Senior Programme Coordinator, UNDP-Bangladesh, Forest and Natural Resource Management Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, South Asian Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and Distinguished Visiting Researcher of the American University in Cairo.

Moreover, he prolifically published more than 170 refereed publications including some 45 in Web of Science and Scopus indexed journals on such broad fields as environment, natural resource management and social and community development.

Apart from that, he regularly contributes to high panel government and civil society committees and boards and acts as a resource person and academic adviser to key national military and civil service training institutions.