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Fazle Hasan Abed

Last Degree Earned:

Chartered Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, London.


Professional Experience:

1972- Founder and Executive Director, BRAC. The largest Non-Governmental Development Organisation in Bangladesh.

1968-71 Treasurer and Head of Finance, Pakistan Shell Oil Company Ltd.

1965-68 Management Accountant, Aircraft Marine Products (GB) Ltd.

1963-65 Budget Accountant, The Bramber Engineering Co., Ltd.

 

Professional Association:

1981-82 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.

1982-86 Senior Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

1982-86 Member, Board of Trustees, BIDS.

1982-86 Chairman, Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB).

1982-90 Member, President's Council on Women and Children.

1986-91 Member, World Bank NGO Committee, Geneva, Switzerland.

1987-90 Chairman, South Asia Partnership.

1987-90 Member, International Commission on Health Research for Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

1990-92 Member, Task Force on Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland.

Research Work/Publications:

“Decision Making at BRAC”, Paper presented at the Institute of Management, Manila, October, 1990.

“Education for Girl Child in South Asia”, Paper presented at the World Conference on Education For All, Bangkok, March, 1990.

“Extension Services of NGOs: The Approach in BRAC”, Paper presented at the National Seminar on GO-NGO Collaboration in Agricultural Research and Extension, Dhaka, August, 1991.

Privatisation, NGOs and National Development: The Case of BRAC in Bangladesh”, Paper presented at the Encounter - 1992, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1992.

“Promoting Popular Participation: Some Issues,” in:Participatory Development and the World Bank: Potential Directions for Change, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1992.

“Coping with Disasters: From Diarrhea to Cyclone,” In K.M. Cahill (ed.). A Framework for Survival, New York, Basic Books and Council on Foreign Relations, 1993.

“Household Teaching of ORT in Rural Bangladesh”, Assignment Children (New York), volume 61/62 (UNICEF), 1993.

“Social Mobilization for EPI in Bangladesh”, In M. Haq, (ed,) Near Miracle in Bangladesh, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1991 (Co-author).

“Credit for the Rural Poor: The Case of BRAC in Bangladesh”, Small Enterprise Development: Vol-2, No.3, 1991.

“Controlling a Forgotten Disease: Using VHWS for Tuberculosis Control in Rural Bangladesh,” Bulletin of the IUALTD, 1991 (Co-author).

“Oral Dehydration Therapy: A Community Trial Comparing the Acceptability of Home Made Sucrose and Cereal-based Solutions”, Bulletin of World Health Organisation, 1991 (Co-author).

"Role of NGOs in International Health". In M Reich and E. Marui (eds.), International Cooperation for Health, Auburn House Publishing Company, Dover, Massachusetts (USA), 1989 (Co-author).

"Scaling up in Health: Two Decades of Learning, In J. Rohde et al. (eds.): Reaching Health for All, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991 (Co-author).

Business Address:

BRAC  
75 Mohakhali
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh.

Tel: 880 2 8824180-87, 880 2 9881265
E-mail: fhabed@bdmail.net, abed.fh@brac.net
Fax: 880 2 8823542

Residential Address:

Royal Ridge
Road No. 84, House No.16/A
Apt. No. 502
Gulshan, Dhaka
Bangladesh