Education and Training

      In 1966, he took up Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India He then pursued his Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1969. In 1973, he took up Diploma in Development Economics in University of Cambridge, England. He eventually gained his PhD in Economics at the same university in 1977.

      Dr. Hossain was trained through a Training in Project Analysis (Education Program and Project Course) at the Economic Development Institute, World Bank in April - June 1978. He also attended a Management and Leadership Training by O’Hare Associates in 1994. Dr. Hossain also participated at the International Internship Program on Intellectual Property Rights at the Michigan State University, USA in 1998.


Service

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

75 Mohakhali Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
June 2007 to present
  • Executive Director

International Rice Research Institute

Los Banos, Laguna Philippines
March 1992 to April 2007
  • Head, Social Science Division and Leader, Fragile Ecosystems Program
    January 2000 - June 2007
  • Deputy Director General for Research (Interim)
    April 1999 - January 2000
  • Economist and Head, Social Science Division
    March 1992 - April 1999

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 1977 to February 1992
  • Director General
    February 1989 - February 1992
  • Director of Research, Human Resource Development Division
    July 1988 - February 1989
  • Senior Research Fellow
    July 1981 - July 1988

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Karachi, and later in BIDS, Dhaka
June 1970 to June 1977
  • Staff Economist


Teaching Experience

University of the Philippines Los Banos

Laguna, Philippines
  • Adjunct Professor, Graduate Faculty
    September 1992 - May 1997
  • Adjunct Professor, Graduate Faculty
    June 1997 - May 2002

Visiting Positions with International Organizations

William Clark Fellow

Overseas Development Institute
London, England
September to October 1990

Visiting Research Fellow

International Food Policy Research Institute
December 1985 to July 1987

Visiting Research Fellow

Institute of Developing Economies
Tokyo, Japan
February to August 1981


Management of Research Projects

  • Leader, Fragile Ecosystems Program. Program 1 under IRRI’s Medium Term Plan
  • Coordinator, Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environments (CURE)
    2004 - 2007
  • Project Team Leader, IRRI-IFAD Project on Accelerating Technology Adoption - Improve Rural Livelihoods for Rainfed Lowlands in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
    March 2003 - present
  • Project Team Leader, Dynamics of Livelihood Systems in Rural Bangladesh: Generation of Information for Facilitating Dialogues on Strategies and Policies for Reduction of Poverty (DOLSYS)
    August 2001 - June 2004
  • Principal Investigator, USDA/Virginia Tech/IRRI, Participatory Assessment of Social and Economics Impacts of Biotechnology
    September 2001 - March 2006
  • Principal Investigator, FAO project on interim assessment of the WFS target - reduce global undernourishment by half of 2015
    December 2003 - May 2004
  • Principal Investigator, Impact of Rice Research on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh (with IFPRI)
    October 2000 - September 2002
  • Project Team Leader, Ecosystem Characterization, Technology Impact and Policy Analysis, IRRI Cross Ecosystem Program
    1997 - 2000
  • Project Team Leader, IRRI-Rockefeller Foundation project on Prioritization of Rice Research in Asia
    1993 - 1999
  • Project Team Leader, Projections and Policy Implications for Medium and Long-term Rice Supply and Demand (in collaboration with IFPRI)
    1992 - 1996
  • Principal Investigator, Differential Impact of Modern Rice Technology in Bangladesh
    1987 - 1990
  • Assistant Research Coordinator, Rural Industries Study Project
    1978 - 1981





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