Kazi Reazul Hoque A fter obtaining his Masters degree from Dhaka University, Kazi Reazul Hoque joined the Bangladesh Civil Service. After serving in local administration, autonomous institutions and in the Bangladesh Secretariat, he retired as a Secretary to the Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh in 2006. While serving as a District Commissioner, Mr. Hoque established the Khulna Foundation, Khulna Shishu Hospital, Liberation War Martyrs Monument at Gollamari and the Rabindra Complex at Dokkhindihi. During his service in the Government, Mr. Hoque played a key role in formulating the National Rural Development Policy-2000 and in establishing the Rural Development Foundation in 2000, the largest foundation in the public sector to reduce poverty under the Rural Development Foundation Act. 62 After his retirement from Government service, Mr. Hoque has served as the Executive Director of the Legal Education and Training Institute (LETI), the Bangladesh Bar Council where he has successfully commissioned a series of human rights training programmes on Child rights and juvenile justice, trafficking and migration, conformity of domestic law with international instruments etc. under technical assistance projects funded by UNICEF, USAID, UNDP, IOM and the Australian Bar Association. Mr. Hoque has studied Law, Public Administration and Management at several institutions at home and abroad including the Bangladesh Civil Service Academy, Birmingham University, UK, the British Civil Service College and the International law Institute and Georgetown University, USA.