Fazle Hasan Abed - Professional Positions

Professional Positions

Abed has held the following positions:

  • 2012-present - Member, UN Secretary General’s Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
  • 2010-2011 - UN Secretary General’s Group of Eminent Persons for Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
  • 2005-present – Commissioner, UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP)
  • 2002-08 - Global Chairperson, International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI) International.
  • 2001-08 - Chairman, Board of Directors, BRAC Bank Limited.
  • 2001-present - President, The Governing Board of BRAC University.
  • 2000-present - Chairman, Governing Body, BRAC.
  • 2000-2005 - Chair, Finance & Audit Committee, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines.
  • 1999-2005 - Member, Board of Governors, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines.
  • 1998-2005 - Member, Policy Advisory Group, The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), The World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • 1994-present - Member, Board of Trustees, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka
  • 1993-2011 - Chairperson, Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a human rights organisation
  • 1992-2009 - Chairman, NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation
  • 1990-2009 - Chairman, ‘Campaign for Popular Education’ (CAMPE), an NGO network on education.
  • 1981-82 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
  • 1982-86 Senior Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).
  • 1982-86 Member, Board of Trustees, BIDS.
  • 1982-86 Chairman, Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB).
  • 1986-91 Member, World Bank NGO Committee, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • 1987-90 Chairman, South Asia Partnership.
  • 1987-90 Member, International Commission on Health Research for Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1992-93 Member, Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation
  • 1998-2004 Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University, U.K.

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