The New Nation - Internet Edition

A Correspondent, Noakhali

Dr Jamaluddin Ahmed, dedicated leader of Awami League and nomination aspirant wants to contest upcoming Parliament Election-2008 from Noakhali-2 (Senbag- Sonaimuri) constituency.

Dr. Jamaluddin Ahmed is an accounting graduate with honours followed by Masters from Dhaka University, a PhD (1996) from the Cardiff Business School, under the University of Wales United Kingdom as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and is a council member of ICAB for the last nine years. Dr Jamal is currently Technical Advisor of South Asian Federation of Accountants which is member body of SAARC.

Dr Jamal is a Partner at Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co, Charterted Accountants, which is the associate firm of Deloitte & Touche in Bangladesh.

Dr Jamal completed his PhD thesis (1996) on the Adverse Effect of Currency Devaluation on the Foreign Loan user Companies of Bangladesh. Over his professional career, Dr. Jamal has written copious publications and conducted numerous research papers on various aspects. Dr Jamal's publications include, Banking Reform in Bangladesh: Comparison with Best Practices, Fiscal Policy for Economic Growth, From Cash to Accrual Accounting-Reforming Government Accounting in Bangladesh, Management of Migrant Remittance-What Shapes and What Shakes, Attracting Foreign Direct Investment-What Shapes and What Shakes, Political Economy of Privatization in Bangladesh-Comparison of Regimes, Political Economy of Currency Devaluation-A Comparative Study.

After coming back from UK Dr Jamal engaged himself with Awami league Politics since 1996. Since then Dr Jamal has been working with Professor Abul Barkat's team. Bangladesh Awami League nominated Dr Jamal in the National Election of 2001 as Member of Parliament from Noakhali-1 Constituency. He was the victim of 4 Party Alliance Government during 2001-2006 periods.