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Chair:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, Mr. Abdul Hamid (centre)
Presenters:
Nurul
Islam Nahid, MP, (left of the Chair) on behalf of
Mr. Asaduzzaman, MP
Dr.
A. Moyeen Khan, MP (right of the Chair)
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Dr. Abdul
Moyeen Khan, MP
Dr. A.
Moyeen Khan, originally from the academia, taught
Physics at the University of Dhaka until his entry into
politics in 1991 as a Member of Parliament. He has
played a dominant role in the process of
institutionalising democracy in Bangladesh. Dr. Khan has
also played a role in the development of the country as
the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Economic Planning and in 1993 was entrusted with the
Ministry of Economic Planning. As Minister, he
introduced the innovative concept of participatory
bottom-up approach instead of the conventional top-down
central planning approach, twelve volumes of which
treatise have already been published with another 28
volumes awaiting publication. He firmly believes that
the adoption of the participatory approach for the
grass-root levels in the formulation of development
activities will improve the overall human resource
development of the country.
He has attended innumerable seminars and meetings
overseas, including the plenary session of the UNGA on
the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Dr. Khan is
currently the President of the Parliamentarians for
Global Action, a New York based organisation. He is an
advocate of the so-called "Two-Track
Diplomacy" aimed at solving regional and
international conflicts on the basis of people-to-people
contact.
Dr. Khan has worked in various capacities as a visiting
scientist in prestigious nuclear physics institutes in
Stockholm, Trieste, Oxford and Pasadena, California. Dr.
Khan is the Director of the Bangladesh Centre for
Advanced Studies and was a member of the Dhaka
University Senate.Dr. Khan is widely travelled and
fluent in several European languages. He has been
advisor of the "Khan Foundation", a family
philanthropic organisation.
Khondokar Asaduzzaman,
MP
Khondokar
Asaduzzaman, MP, Adviser to the Prime Minister on
Establishment, was born in 1935 in a very respected
family of Tangail. He is also the Chairman of the
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of
Establishment. After a very distinguished educational
career, ending with a Master's Degree in economics from
Dhaka University, he joined the Civil Service of
Pakistan in 1960. He received higher degrees and
completed different courses from Carlton University
(Canada), Staff College (Melbourne, Australia) and Asia
Pacific Centre (Kuala Lumpur). He has authored a book on
Comparative Civil Service in South East Asia.
In addition to holding senior and important positions
in the government, Mr. Asaduzzaman has also led various
delegations abroad, including World Bank, Asian
Development Bank and FAO. In 1971 he actively
participated in the War of Liberation, holding
the Finance Secretary's position in the
government-in-exile. He had also organised armed
resistance in his area. After the assassination of
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mr. Asaduzzaman was
jailed and is a eye witness to the jail killings of
November 3, 1975. After retiring from government service
in 1995, Mr. Asaduzzaman took up social work as almost a
full time preoccupation. His contribution to spreading
education in his area is truly remarkable. He is
associated with the management of a number of
educational institutions.
Mr. Asaduzzaman has donated land for a cluster
village and has helped construction of a charitable
hospital and a madrasah in his constituency. A lover of
finer things of life, Mr. Asaduzzaman's interests
include reading, music, travels and collection of
historical artifacts. This is Mr. Asaduzzaman's first
term as an MP.
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