Professor Mustafizur Rahman is an economist by training. He is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, Bangladesh where he was the immediate past Executive Director. Dr. Rahman was a Professor at the University of Dhaka where he is currently a member of the University Senate. He was Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, UK and Senior Fulbright Fellow at Yale University, USA. His areas of research include WTO and interests of the LDCs, addressing Bangladesh’s LDC graduation challenges, South-South Cooperation, regional cooperation and economic integration in Southern Asia, fiscal-monetary policies and macroeconomic performance and challenges of SDGs implementation. He has published widely in Bangladesh and abroad. Professor Rahman has served as member of a number of national bodies set up by the Government of Bangladesh including WTO Advisory Committee, Regulatory Reforms Commission and Core Committee on Connectivity. He was a member of Panel of Economists for the Sixth and Seventh Five Year Plans of Bangladesh and the Second Perspective Plan of Bangladesh (2021-2041).