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Bangladeshi philosopher
Anisuzzaman
আনিসুজ্জামান
Vice Chancellor of Global University Bangladesh
In office
May 2019 – December 2024
Personal details
Born (1951-03-01) 1 March 1951 (age 73)
Gopalganj, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materUniversity of Wales
OccupationProfessor, university administrator

Anisuzzaman (born 1951) is a Bangladeshi philosopher and university administrator. He was the first vice-chancellor of Global University Bangladesh, serving from 2019 to 2024. Most of his career was spent at Dhaka University as a professor of philosophy.

Biography

Anisuzzaman was born on March 1, 1951, in Gopalganj, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to Shahida Begam and Abul Hossain Molla.

He finished his BA and MA degrees in philosophy from Dhaka University in 1972 and 1973, respectively. In October 1977, he joined the faculty at the University of Chittagong as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. After a little more than two years there, he returned to Dhaka, where he completed a MPhil degree from Dhaka University in 1981. The next year he became an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy there.

Anisuzzaman received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study philosophical anthropology at the University of Wales in the UK. There he earned a PhD in 1988 for his dissertation, The Concept of Man: Dualism and the Western Tradition.

That year, Dhaka University promoted him to associate professor, and to professor in 1993. He carried out postdoctoral research in comparative theology at Andrews University in the US in 1994. Back at Dhaka University, he served as chair of the philosophy department for two months in 1997. He left on a Commonwealth Fellowship for King's College London. There he conducted further research on comparative religion and philosophical anthropology. In 1998, he returned to Dhaka University, where he continued to chair the philosophy department until 2000. He directed two centers within the department: the Dev Centre for Philosophical Studies from 2001 to 2005 and the Moral Development Centre from 2010 to 2013.

Anisuzzaman was appointed vice-chancellor of Global University Bangladesh, a private university in Barisal, in 2019. He was their first vice-chancellor. In 2023, he was reappointed for a second four-year term. He resigned on December 8, 2024.

References

  1. ^ "A Short Bio Data of Professor Dr. Anisuzzaman" (PDF). Bangladesh University of Professionals. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 1, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  2. ^ গ্লোবাল ইউনিভার্সিটির নতুন ভিসি অধ্যাপক আনিসুজ্জামান [The new VC of Global University is professor Anisuzzaman]. Dainik Shiksha (in Bengali). May 29, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  3. "NLW Catalogue - The Concept of Man: Dualism and the Western Tradition". The University of Wales Library Catalog.
  4. বরিশাল গ্লোবাল ইউনিভার্সিটির ভিসি ড. আনিসুজ্জামান [Barisal Global University VC Dr. Anisuzzaman]. The Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). May 29, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
  5. গ্লোবাল ভার্সিটির ভিসি প্রফেসর আনিসুজ্জামান [VC of Global University Professor Anisuzzaman]. Jugantor (in Bengali). May 31, 2019. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021.
  6. ফের গ্লোবাল ইউনিভার্সিটির উপাচার্য অধ্যাপক আনিসুজ্জামান [Professor Anisuzzaman returns as Vice Chancellor of Global University]. thedailycampus.com (in Bengali). October 26, 2023. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
  7. Palash, S. N. (December 10, 2024). শিক্ষকদের দলাদলিতে উপাচার্যের পদত্যাগ [Vice-Chancellor resigns amid teachers' factionalism]. Jugantor.
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