Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky
| Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky | |
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| Born |
26 February 1970 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Sharmin Siddiky |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Education | M.A. in History and Economics |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky is a Bangladeshi urban sociologist, historian, politician and anti-corruption activist who has served as Shadow Mayor of Dhaka since 2015.
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky was born in 1970 in one of Bangladesh's oldest landed feudal families. His grandfather was the Zamindar of Baliadi, a hamlet near Dhaka in the Gazipur District of Bangladesh. He is the son of Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky, the founding treasurer of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the former Minister of State for Commerce (proti-montri) of Bangladesh. He is the great-grandson of Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, the co-founder of the Assam-Bengal Muslim League during the British rule and one of the founders of the University of Dhaka
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky attended the St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, the oldest Anglican private school in Asia. He received his bachelor's degree in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his master's degree in Economics from the University of Iowa in the United States.
Siddiky was a candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city. In 2009 and 2012, Irad Siddiky ran for the Mayor of Dhaka as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In 2015 he contested the elections for the Mayor of Dhaka North.
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