Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir

Who is Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir?

Dr. Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir is the present Bangladeshi Minister of Home Affairs. He is also a prominent economist, civil servant, writer, and political leader in Bangladesh.

Alamgir holds a Master's degree in economics from Dhaka University, a Master's in development economics from Boston University, and a Ph.D in economics from Boston University. He began his professional career in 1962, by joining the economics faculty at the University of Dhaka.

He taught at the university until 1965. Joining the civil service that year, he served in numerous positions, for a total of 32 years. He held several positions with the Finance Ministry, in addition to regional posts. Beginning in the late 1990s, he was appointed to political positions when the Awami League was in power. As a leading opponent of the Bangladesh National Party, he was detained without charges and tortured during 2002. An international effort helped obtain his release. He was arrested, charged and convicted in 2007 under a military caretaker government, and imprisoned until October 2008. He was elected as an MP in the December 2008 election, in which the Awami League won two-thirds of the seats. His son Jalal Alamgir, an educationist in Massachusetts, died in a tragic accident on December 3, 2011 at Pattaya, Thailand.