Dr. Kamal Uddin Ahmed
Full Time Member
Dr. Kamal Uddin Ahmed is the Full-Time Member of National
Human Rights Commission, appointed by the Hon’ble President of the
People’s Republic of Bangladesh with the pay and privilege of a Judge
of High court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 22 September
2019.
Dr. Kamal completed both SSC and HSC from Faujderhat Cadet
College, Chittagong. He did LLB from University of Dhaka and MBA
from Institute of Business Administration, IBA, University of Dhaka.
He did degrees of Master of Science (M.Sc) from the UK and Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D) from New Zealand.
He was Secretary to the Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of
Environment, Forests and Climate Change and was the Member, Socio-Economic Infrastructure
Division in Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, Government of the People's Republic
of Bangladesh. He was a Professor of School of Business and Economics, North South
University. Dr. Ahmed held the highly esteemed international position of a Board Member of
Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board, South Korea (HQ), for the first time from Bangladesh and
successfully represented 45 LDC countries in regard to their climate vulnerabilities and GCF
support.
He was the Chairman of Bangladesh Joint Boundary Working Group (JBWG) and had
tough negotiations with Indian counterpart. That ultimately led to the formulation of a Protocol
on historical LBA (Mujib-Indira Chukti) and execution of an epoch-making pacific settlement
of land boundary disputes between Bangladesh and India. He discharged mentionable
contributions in the attainment of Human Rights through maintenance of law and order;
formulation of international documents; execution of successful negotiations, especially in the
field of human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing etc.
Dr. Ahmed renders his service on request as a resource person in various educational and
training institutions of national acclaim; just to name few of such as, North South University,
BRAC University, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Public Administration Training
Centre (BPATC), Bangladesh Civil Service Administration Academy, Bangladesh Academy for
Rural Development (BARD), National Defence College (NDC) etc.
He is a committed researcher and author, has to his credit publication of well revered
books, and articles in internationally reputed journals.
He is married to Mrs. Parveen Akhter an Economics graduate (MSS) from Dhaka
University and a Development Administration (MDA) scholar from Australian National
University; presently, Director General (Grade-1), Directorate of Women Affairs, Ministry of
Women Affairs. They are blessed with a daughter, now a student of Journalism in Massey
University, New Zealand.
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