Education and Career
Sobhan attended St. Paul's School, Darjeeling in India and then he went on to Cambridge University to earn his bachelor's degree. Subsequently, he attended London School of Economics for a doctoral degree in economics but returned without completing the degree. His cohorts at Cambridge included prominent economists of the Indian subcontinent such as Amartya Sen, Manmohan Singh and Mahbub ul Haq. He taught Economics at the University of Dhaka. After liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, Rehman Sobhan was appointed a member of the Planning Commission. He quit when he, along with others, fell from the grace of Sheikh Mujib in 1975. Later he worked as the Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. After retirement from BIDS, he set up Centre for Policy Dialogue in 1993, a high-profile private sector think-tank, where he works as its Executive Chairman .
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