A. Q. M. Mahbub

A. Q. M. Mahbub is a Bangladeshi academic and former vice-chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University. He is a former professor of the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Dhaka.

A. Q. M. Mahbub
3rd Vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University
In office 2 September 2020 – 20 August 2024
Preceded by	Khondoker Md Nasiruddin
Personal details
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Education	PhD[1]
Alma mater	University of Dhaka University of Canterbury
Occupation	Academic

He works on the themes of environment, population mobility and urban planning.^[2]

Biography

Mahbub completed his BSc in 1975 and MSc in 1976 at the University of Dhaka.^[3][4] Two years later, he joined the faculty there as a lecturer in the Department of Geography.^[3][5]

He received his PhD in 1986 from University of Canterbury in New Zealand, for his dissertation Population Mobility in Rural Bangladesh: The Circulation of Working People.^[3][4][6] Thereafter he continued to teach at the University of Dhaka, and became full professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment in 1997.^[3]

After retirement from the University of Dhaka, he was appointed as the vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU), Gopalganj in 2020.^[5]

In February 2022, Mahbub joined BSMRSTU teachers and students in demonstrating against the gang rape of a student.^[7] He was injured when protestors were attacked by alleged members of the Bangladesh Chatra League.^[8][9] After four days of protests, the academic council, chaired by Mahbub, suspended classes for three days.^[10]

Publications

• Mahbub, A. Q. M. (1983). Population mobility in rural Bangladesh: The circulation of working people (PhD). University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7442.
• Mahbub, A. Q. M (1997). Mobility behaviour of working people in Bangladesh: rural-rural and rural-urban circulation. Urban Studies Programme, Dept. of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka. ISBN 978-984-510-012-0. OCLC 40142751.
• Angeles, Gustavo; Lance, Peter; Barden-O'Fallon, Janine; Islam, Nazrul; Mahbub, AQM; Nazem, Nurul Islam (8 June 2009). "The 2005 census and mapping of slums in Bangladesh: design, select results and application". International Journal of Health Geographics. 8 (1): 32. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-32. ISSN 1476-072X. PMC 2701942. PMID 19505333.
• Mahmood, Riffat; Mahbub, A. Q. M. (2018). "Building Vulnerable Islander Resilience to Natural Hazard: A Participatory Approach". Handbook of Climate Change Resilience. Springer. pp. 1–30. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71025-9_107-1. ISBN 978-3-319-71025-9. S2CID 134986489.