Citizenship Bangladesh Occupation Academic, consultant Name Mahdi Amin | Nationality Bangladeshi Religion Islam | |
Born 30 June 1986 (age 37)
Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 1986-06-30 ) Alma mater University of Cambridge
London School of Economics
Middlesex University Political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party Education Middlesex University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge | ||
রাসুল প্রেমের উজ্জ্বল দৃষ্টান্ত হাফেজ মাহদী আমিন ওয়াজ Hafez Mahdi Amin waz 01747-536901
Mahdi Amin (Bengali: মাহদী আমিন) is a Bangladeshi academic. He is currently based in Cambridge, United Kingdom as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
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On 15 August 2014, Mahdi Amin was named the education and research adviser to the senior vice chair of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Tarique Rahman.
Early life and education
Mahdi Amin was born on 30 June 1986 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father Muhammad Ruhul Amin is an entrepreneur and investor, and mother Salma Amin is a homemaker. Amin's maternal grandfather Abdul Awal was a politician and the founding president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Comilla.
Amin attended Dhanmondi Government Boys School and Dhaka College for his secondary and higher secondary education respectively, and scored GPA 5 out of 5 in the both. Then he went to Middlesex University to earn a bachelor of arts in business administration where he came as the best student of the university. He also went to London School of Economics and City University of New York, where he respectively earned a specialisation certificate in political economy of public policy and attended an exchange program. As an exchange programme student in CUNY, Amin won the 'Student Ambassador Award' after attending the Model United Nations Annual Meeting held at the Headquarters of the United Nations in 2007.
In 2010, Amin earned his MPhil from University of Cambridge in South Asian studies, where he published a book on India's rise as a research and development hub. His supervisors were Jaideep Prabhu and Sir Christopher Bayly, FBA, FRSL. Later that year he went on to pursue his PhD at the Judge Business School of the university with a scholarship jointly funded by the British Research and Development Management Association, the Centre for Process Excellence and Innovation (CPEI) and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, where he also lectures postgraduate as well as research students on especially business administration related subjects.
In 2009, BBC Bangla, the Bengali service of British Broadcasting Corporation featured Amin on its programme, BBC Janala at an episode on academic excellence of Bangladeshi students in University of Cambridge.
Mahdi Amin is the founder and president of the University of Cambridge-based think-tank Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge with affiliate bodies in United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland and Bangladesh.
Consultancy
Mahdi Amin has engaged with a range of international companies as part of his consultancy works, including Alive Products Limited, Audio Analytic, British Telecom Group, Contact Field Marketing, IBM Corporation, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive, London Legacy Development Corporation, Primavera Gallery, Radical Sportscars, Westfield Group, and Wellcome Trust.
Politics
On 15 August 2014, Mahdi Amin was appointed as the education and research adviser to Tarique Rahman, the senior vice chairman of the BNP. The appointment generated widespread media attention as this was the first time Tarique Rahman appointed an adviser. Amin had been working with Tarique Rahman and Bangladesh Nationalist Party since before the appointment.
After the appointment and a formal introduction to the public by Tarique Rahman on 24 August 2014 that followed, Amin spoke of an opening for the politics of Bangladesh Nationalist Party toward research orientation and participation of the youth.
Publications instrumented by Amin including research reports and documentaries have made numerous appearances at events held by both BNP and its affiliate bodies. In July 2013, Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge founded and presided over by Amin, published The Political Thought of Tarique Rahman: Empowerment of the Grassroots People. The publication received widespread media attention and triggered subsequent local publications in United States, Canada, Germany, Australia and Finland in Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Ulm, University of New South Wales and University of Helsinki respectively
Through the programmes organised by Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge, Mahdi Amin has actively engaged with a number of politicians, academics, journalists and bureaucrats, including New York Senator Jose Peralta; Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York City, Mayor Vincent Mazzeo of Northfield, Mayor Dr Felix Roque of West New York, New Jersey; Canadian Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray; Mitzie Hunter MP; Australian MP Mehreen Faruqi, John Dowd AO QC AO QC; Chrystia Freeland, former editor of Financial Times; David Nicholson and journalist of The Guardian and Daily Telegraph.