Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
| Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | |
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| আবুল মাল আব্দুল মুহিত | |
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| Minister of Finance | |
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Assumed office 6 January 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Preceded by | Mirza Azizul Islam (Acting) |
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6 October 1934 Sylhet, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
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Abul Maal Abdul Muhith (born 6 October 1934) is an economist, diplomat, and a Bengali Language Movement veteran from Bangladesh. He has been the country's Finance Minister since January 2009.
Born in Sylhet, Muhith passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School in 1949. He secured first place in his Intermediate examination in 1951 from Sylhet MC College. He stood first class first in B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature in 1953 from University of Dhaka and passed his Masters with credit from the same university in 1955. While in service to the government, he studied at Oxford University in 1957–1958 and completed a Master of Public Administration at Harvard University in 1964.
Muhith served as the general secretary of the central committee of the Pakistan Civil Service Association during 1960–1969. He joined the Pakistan Embassy in the United States as an Economic Counselor in 1969. In 1966, he was honoured with the Tamgha e Khidmat award by the Pakistan government. During his service as the Chief and Deputy Secretary of Pakistan Planning Commission, he made a report on the discrimination between East and West Pakistan and that was the first submitted report on that issue in Pakistan National Congress. He was the first diplomat of Washington Embassy who showed his consent in favour of Bangladesh giving up the side of Pakistan during the Independence War of 1971. He was appointed as the Secretary of Planning in 1972 and Secretary of the External Resource Department of Finance and Planning Ministry in 1977.
Muhith went for self-retirement in 1981 from his service and then he started his second innings of his career as the specialist of economics and development in Ford Foundation and in the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He became Finance and Planning Minister in 1982–83. Next, he worked as the specialist of different institutions of World Bank and the United Nations. He has been a recognised figure in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, IDB and in different organisations of United Nations. He was the Visiting Fellow of Princeton University in 1984 and 1985.
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