Mushtaque Chowdhury

Mushtaque Chowdhury is the Vice Chair of BRAC, the world’s largest non-governmental organization. He is also a Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University in New York. During 2009-12, he worked as the Senior Adviser to the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Chowdhury holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hon’s.) in Statistics from the University of Dhaka. He is the founding Dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health of BRAC University. He is the recipient of the 2017 ‘Medical Award of Excellence’ from the Ronald McDonald House Charities.