Author
Faruque Mirza has done his B.A Honours M.A in economics from Rajshahi University in Bangladesh n 1972. He joined civil service in 1973 and posted as Traffic Officer in BRTC under the Ministry of Communication, Railways, Roads and Highways and Road Transport Division as an equivalent post of Assistant Commissioner of Government of Bangladesh. He worked in different positions including Division Manager , Project Manager and Project Coordinator ( UNROB, UNDP and ILO under Rehabilitation Programme of Truck Division of BRTC ) and during his short tenure of services before undergoing a training programme in Belgium under the Belgian Technical Assistance Programme.
He left his job in 1983 and continued his studies in Brussels until obtaining Master of Industrial Location and Development, Master of Business Administration and Ph. D in economics sciences from University of Brussels in 1991. After finishing his studies, he worked as research fellow in Mathematics, Operation Research , Statistics and Information System for Management (MOSI) under the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (ESP) until 1995 before joining as professor of economics at the Inter-university Institute for Training and Development (ITTD) in Brussels jointly managed by Universite Libre Brussels (ULB) and (VUB) Vrije Universitei Brussels where he worked until 2003.
From 2003
-2007, he worked as research fellow
under MOSI before joining as Scientific Advisor ( Project design, Economic
evaluation and Coordination) to Research
Group, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics , Department of Mechanical Engineering,Vrije Universiteit
Brussels (VUB), Pleinlaan-2,
1050,Brussels