Atiur Rahman

Atiur Rahman is a Bangladeshi economist and a former director of the state-owned Sonali Bank,cite news
title = Atiur Rahman new Chairman of Janata Bank
url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-29717421.html
work = The Independent
date = 2000-07-02
accessdate = 2007-07-14
quote = Dr Atiur Rahman recently taken over as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Janata Bank ... . A distinguished economist Dr Atiur Rahman was a director of Sonali Bank prior to this assignment.] the largest in Bangladesh. [cite web
url = http://www.sonalibank.com.bd/overview_of_the_bank.htm
title = Overview of the Bank
accessdate = 2007-07-14
year = 2005
work = Sonali Bank
quote = Sonali Bank, the largest & leading commercial bank of the country ...] In 2001, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Janata Bank, the second-largest in the country. [cite web
url = http://www.janatabank-bd.com/jb1.htm
title = Overview of the Bank
accessdate = 2007-07-14
work = Janata Bank
quote = Janata Bank, the second largest commercial bank in Bangladesh ...] He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. [cite news
title = Local budget for health, education proposed
url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-85776026.html
work = The Independent
date = 2003-10-15
accessdate = 2007-07-14
quote = Senior Research Fellow of BIDS Dr Atiur Rahman ... ]

His schooling was at Mirzapur Cadet College, which was followed by graduation and postgraduation in economics from Dhaka University and a Ph.D from SOAS in London. He has since played a major role in the much publicised microcredit revolution in Bangladesh, serving in Mohammed Yunus' National Task Force on Poverty Eradication and as Chairman of the Janata Bank, Bangladesh's second largest bank, and on the Board of Sonali Bank, Bangladesh's largest. He has worked for a long time in BIDS (Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies) and is now also the chairman of the nonprofit research institute Unnayan Shamunnay. As of 2008, he is a professor of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka.

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