Mahdi Amin
With the rank of a state minister · Not an MP
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Mahdi Amin is Adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, with the rank of a State Minister, and spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office. Since 24 February 2026 he has been responsible for the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment and the Ministry of Labour and Employment. This Cambridge-educated policy researcher is not a member of parliament.
After completing his secondary education at Dhanmondi Government Boys' High School and his higher secondary education at Dhaka College, he obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, coming first in his class. He obtained a certificate in the political economy of public policy from the London School of Economics and took part in an exchange programme at Baruch College, City University of New York. In 2010 he obtained an MPhil in modern South Asian studies from the University of Cambridge; his research, supervised by Sir Christopher Bayly, was on the integration of technology in government policymaking in South Asia. At Cambridge he has done doctoral research on the electric vehicle industry and green technology.
He is the founder and president of the think tank 'Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge'; the forum has affiliated chapters in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland and Bangladesh.
He was education and research adviser to Tarique Rahman, then acting chairman of the BNP, and in 2024 he became a member of the party's foreign affairs advisory committee. As spokesperson of the BNP's central election management committee, formed ahead of the 2026 election and referendum, he gave regular press briefings from the party's election office in Gulshan.
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Sources: Wikipedia (Bangla); the list of responsibilities is the Cabinet Division’s. Checked up to 16 September 2026. If you see a mistake, let us know.