Mahdi Amin
Mahdi Amin | |
|---|---|
মাহদী আমিন | |
| Adviser to the Senior vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
| Assumed office August 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1986 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Citizenship | Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge London School of Economics Middlesex University |
| Occupation | Academic, consultant |
Mahdi Amin (Bengali: মাহদী আমিন) is a Bangladeshi academic and political adviser. He is currently based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge.[1]
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.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
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.[3]
Amin attended Dhanmondi Government Boys School and Dhaka College for his secondary and higher secondary education respectively. Amin attended Middlesex University, earning a bachelor of arts in business administration and graduating first in his program.[4] 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.[2]
In 2010, Amin earned his MPhil in South Asian studies from the University of Cambridge, where he also published a book on India's rise as a research and development hub.[4] His supervisors were Jaideep Prabhu and Sir Christopher Bayly. The same year he began a PhD at the Judge Business School.
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[edit]
Amin has worked with a range of international companies as part of his consultancy practice 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.[1]
Politics[edit]
On 15 August 2014, Mahdi Amin was appointed as the education and research adviser to Tarique Rahman, Senior Vice Chairman of the BNP.[2] The announcement generated widespread media attention as it was the first time Tarique Rahman appointed an adviser.[5]
In this role, Amin has focused on research and political opportunities for Bangladeshi youth.
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.[6] Amin also scripted a 40-minute film promoting Rahman's life and accomplishments.[7]
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 State Senator Jose Peralta; US 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.[8][9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cambridge Judge Business School : Mahdi Amin, Judge Business School, archived from the original on 2014-09-11, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 তারেক রহমানের উপদেষ্টা হলেন ক্যামব্রিজের গবেষক মাহদী [Tarique Rahman's adviser is Cambridge researcher Mahdi] (in Bengali), Manab Zamin, 17 August 2014, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ আত্মীয়তার বন্ধনে রাজনীতি-৭ [Relationship between kinship −7] (in Bengali), Manab Zamin, 23 May 2015, archived from the original on 2015-05-28, retrieved 2015-10-09
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 কেমব্রিজ কথন [Cambridge Speech] (in Bengali), Prothom Alo, 20 July 2011, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ ক্যামব্রিজ শিক্ষক মাহদীকে উপদেষ্টা নিয়োগ তারেকের [Tareq appointed Cambridge teacher Mahdi adviser] (in Bengali), Daily Amar Desh, 17 August 2014, archived from the original on 2014-08-20, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ 'Political thought' of Tarique Rahman, BDNews24, 27 June 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ তারেক জিয়াকে নিয়ে লন্ডনে তথ্য-চলচ্চিত্র নির্মাণ [Making film information about Tarek Zia in London] (in Bengali), The Daily Ittefaq, 24 November 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ নিউইয়র্কে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' গ্রন্থের প্রকাশনা অনুষ্ঠান [Publishing program of 'The Political Thought of Tariq Rahman' in New York] (in Bengali), Bangladesh Pratidin, 19 August 2013, archived from the original on 2013-08-22, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ টরন্টোতে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অফ তারেক রহমান : এম্পাওয়ারমেন্ট অফ দ্যা গ্রাসরুট পিপল' বইয়ের প্রকাশনা উৎসব [Toronto's 'The Political Thought of Tareq Rahman: Empowerment of the Grassroots People' book festival in Toronto] (in Bengali), Weekly Shaptahik, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ ২১ অক্টোবর বার্লিনে 'দি পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' গ্রন্থের প্রকাশনা উৎসব [The publication festival of The Political Thought of Tariq Rahman in Berlin on 21 October] (in Bengali), BD Today, 9 October 2013, archived from the original on 2014-09-11, retrieved 2014-09-08
- ↑ কলাম্বিয়া ইউনিভার্সিটিতে 'দ্য পলিটিক্যাল থট অব তারেক রহমান' বইয়ের প্রকাশনা উৎসব [Columbia University, The Political Thought of Tarique Rahman, the book publishing festival] (in Bengali), Natunbarta, 20 August 2013, retrieved 2014-09-08
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