Kamal Ahmad

Kamal Ahmad (born March 28, 1965) is an American lawyer, educator, and CEO of Asian University for Women Support Foundation. Ahmad established Asian University for Women located in Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2006.

Ahmad was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He grew up during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. At age 14, Ahmad established a series of internationally-funded afternoon schools for adolescents who served as domestic workers in Dhaka.

Ahmad moved to the U.S. in 1980 to attend Phillips Exeter Academy. At Exeter, he led the Third World Society and the Student-Faculty Committee on Corporate Responsibility which focused on the question of corporate divestment from apartheid-era South Africa. Ahmad entered Harvard College in 1983. As a Harvard freshman, Ahmad founded and managed the Overseas Development Network, a consortium of 70 university student groups across the United States dedicated to the promotion of international development projects. In 1987, Ahmad won TIME Magazine’s second annual College Achievement Award for “20 of the most outstanding juniors in America.”

Ahmad's father is Professor Kamaluddin Ahmad, a famed biochemist who pioneered the study of biochemistry and nutritional sciences in the Indian subcontinent. Professor Ahmad established one of the region’s first biochemistry departments at the University of Dhaka in 1957.

Ahmad’s grandfather, Dr. M.O. Ghani was one of the first Bengali-Indian Muslims to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry from the United Kingdom. He went on to become Founder-Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensing, Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka, Pakistan's Ambassador to East Africa, and an independent Member of Parliament in Bangladesh.

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