Reza Kibria

Reza Kibria is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member of parliament elected from Habiganj-1. An economist, writer and politician, he is serving in Parliament for the first time, as a member of the 13th Parliament. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Education.

Reza Kibria was born on 6 March 1957 in Jalalsap village in Habiganj subdivision of what was then Sylhet district (now Nabiganj upazila, Habiganj). His father, Shah A. M. S. Kibria, was a former finance minister of Bangladesh. His mother, Asma Kibria, was a painter. His sister, Nazli Kibria, teaches in the Department of Sociology at Boston University in the United States.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree in economics from Queen's University. He later completed an MPhil and a DPhil in economics, also at Oxford. In 1984 he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and he taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Dhaka. From 1996 to 2000 he was macroeconomic adviser to the revenue department of the Government of Papua New Guinea, then chief economist of PDP Australia, and from 2009 to 2011 macroeconomic adviser at the IMF's East Africa Regional Technical Assistance Centre. While teaching at Griffith University, from 2016 he spent two years as the IMF's macro-fiscal adviser at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Government of Cambodia. He has been chairman of Integro Holdings since 2015.

His active political career began in 2018, when he returned home and joined Gano Forum. He became a member of Gano Forum's presidium and later its general secretary. On 26 October 2021 he took over as convener of Gono Odhikar Parishad. On 1 December 2025 he formally joined BNP, and the party nominated him for the Habiganj-1 seat.

In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected a member of parliament for the first time, winning 111,999 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. His wife is Simi Kibria.

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