M.A. Sattar Mandal is an emeritus Professor at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU). A renowned academic leader, Professor Mandal has been involved in agricultural economics teaching, research and policy planning since 1973. He was a vice-chancellor of BAU and a member of the Agriculture and General Economics Division of the Bangladesh Planning Commission. Professor Mandal managed many internationally funded collaborative research projects. He advises FAO, CIMMYT, WorldFish, the International Finance Corporation, the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture, and various national agricultural research system (NARS) institutes. He has a PhD from London, has completed postdoctoral studies at Oxford, and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from BAU.

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