Professor Iqbal Ahmad was born on the 20^th September 1948 in a respectable Muslim family of Narsingdi District. He obtained B.Sc(Hon’s) and M.Sc Degree from the University of Dhaka and further M.Sc, Industrial Administration (Major in Marketing) from Aston University, United Kingdom and successfully completed many post Graduate Diploma Courses in Export Market and TOT, ITC (Geneva, Switzerland), Personal Management (BMDC, Bangladesh) Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development, ISS (Manila, Philippine), Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations and Labour Economics (ISS, Holland), Research Methodology ( George Washington University, USA), Business Case Teaching and Writing (Harvard University, USA) etc. currently he is professor of BAIUST, Cumilla. He is also director of Uttara Bank Ltd. Mr. Iqbal had been a professor and former Director, Teaching in DBA, MBA, EMBA and BBA Program Supervising M.Phil., Ph.D. and DBA program students of the Institute of Business Administration. Dhaka University, Dhaka He has 41 years of Professional experience and during this period, Professor Iqbal was given many assignment under the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Government such as Director, Board of Bangladesh Biman. Neural Member of Minimum Wages Board, Director, Sadharan Bima Corporation and an Administrator of a Jute Mill under BJMC And also in Education Institutions as Advisor of Faculty of Business, ASA University Bangladesh and Chairman, Executive MBA Program and MBA Program, IBA, DU.

Professor Iqbal had also worked as Research Associate at Institute of Social Studies (I.S.S), The Hague,         Holland. He developed different senior executive program for senior Level on Human Resource Management, Brand Management, Business Research, Leadership and Ladies Executive Management Programs and other areas. He has also acted as consultant, Advisor in many organizations at home and abroad, including World Bank, Flood Action prog, Asian Development Bank.

Professor Iqbal has many publications out of which Human Resource Management (Karmi Babosthapona), Cases on Micro Credit (Artho Rujgarer Prochesta), Organizational Behavior (Shangathanik Acharan), Basic Labor Laws of Bangladesh, Dishari (Adult Education) and Industrial Relations and Labour Movement on Bangladesh are remarkable ones. He has also published several articles on Agro Business in national journals.

For his outstanding contribution to Education, he was honoured with Bangladesh Education Leadership Award, 2018 and fellow of the Institute of Management, University of Channaini. He is also a member of AMDISA.

Professor Iqbal was inducted in the Board of Directors of Uttara Bank limited as Independent Director in July, 2020.