Independent Director

Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur

Dr. Mansur started his career as a Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka in 1976. Dr. Mansur joined the International Monetary Fund under its Economist Program in 1981 and thereafter completed his PhD in Economics (On general equilibrium analysis) from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1982. During his long career in the IMF, Dr. Mansur has worked on Middle Eastern, Asian, African and Central American countries. He worked in important functional departments (Fiscal Affairs and Policy Review and Development departments) and area departments (Middle East and Central Asia and Asian departments) of the IMF. He also served as the IMF Senior Resident Representative to Pakistan during 1998-2001 and as the Fiscal Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Government of Bangladesh (1989-91). During his assignment in Bangladesh, Mr. Mansur was primarily involved with the successful introduction of Value Added Tax in Bangladesh in 1991. In his last IMF assignment, he served as the Division Chief of the Middle East and Central Asia Department. After taking early retirement from the IMF, with a view to establishing an institute aimed at policy analysis, in coordination with other professionals, Dr. Mansur joined the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh as its founder Director and Executive Director in 2009. In the meantime, PRI has established itself as a leading think tank in Bangladesh and engages extensively with the Government on major fiscal, financial, trade policy and planning issues.

Dr. Mansur has published extensively in various prestigious journals (Including Econometric, Journal of Economic Theory and IMF Staff Papers), edited books on special Economic topics and in the IMF occasional Paper and Working Paper series. He also edited a book (With Fernando Delgado) on Stock Market Developments in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, published by Palgrave Macmillan in its Finance and Capital Markets Series, November, 2008. Mr. Mansur writes extensively on contemporary Economic and Socio-economic issues in leading newspapers and appears regularly in TV programs in Bangladesh. Presently, Dr. Mansur is performing as an Independent Director in Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC.