Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir
With the rank of a minister · Not an MP
Profile
Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is Adviser to the Prime Minister with the rank of a Minister; since 24 February 2026 he has been responsible for the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning. An economist, Titumir is a professor at the University of Dhaka and a former chairman of its Department of Development Studies; his research on development economics, poverty, climate change and political economy has been published internationally. He is not a member of parliament.
He was born in Machhpara village, Pangsha, Rajbari; his father, Arshed Ali, is a former principal of Pangsha College. After completing his SSC and HSC at Jhenaidah Cadet College, he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Dhaka in 1990. He obtained a master's degree in development and financial economics from the University of London in 1997, a postgraduate diploma in trade policy and commercial diplomacy from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa in Canada in 2005, and a PhD in economics from the University of London in 2014.
In the Department of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka he was assistant professor, associate professor and later full professor, and as chairman of the department he introduced an outcome-based curriculum. He was an assistant professor at Bangladesh Open University and a teaching and research fellow at Royal Holloway, London. He has worked as a member of the Ministry of Commerce's WTO advisory committee, a member of the Bangladesh delegation to the UN climate conference and a national consultant to the Bangladesh Tariff Commission; he has been a consultant to the ILO, UNDP, UNESCAP, DFID and the European Union.
He is the founding chairman of the research organisation 'Unnayan Onneshan', vice-chair of the Asia Regional Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and chairman of its Bangladesh National Committee. His books include Why Agriculture Productivity Falls (Purdue University Press), State Building and Social Policies in Developing Countries (Routledge), Numbers and Narratives in Bangladesh's Economic Development and Sundarbans and its Ecosystem Services (Palgrave Macmillan). He writes columns regularly; he was at one time a staff reporter at The Daily Star. He has received various fellowships, including a Charles Wallace Trust scholarship.
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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.