Gazi Mahabubul Alam
Gazi Mahabubul Alam has been working as a Professor with the Academic Performance Enhancement Unit, University of Malaya (UM) (). Prior to this appointment, Prof. Alam worked as a Professor in the International Islamic University, Malaysia taking a short break from the UM. Gazi has an extensive work experience both in the institution of higher education and in international development sectors. Main countries of his work experience include Bangladesh, USA, UK, Australia and Malaysia. Gazi has published a significant number of articles in international peer-reviewed journals (). Although he is an education economist, he has conducted researches in Multi-disciplinary area. Gazi received the award of best scholar at the area of education economics from Science Digest in 2011. In addition to these, Gazi's paper on private higher education receives the best citation award in the year of 2011 (). Gazi has published a significant number of ISI/SCOPUS indexed journal articles and the articles received a remarkable amount of citations. While Gazi’s H-index with Web of Science as a scholar is 10, H-index with SCOPUS is 13.
In addition to the areas of education, economics and business, Prof. Alam has published many works in area of physical science, climate change and ICT. He has a wide experience to work as editor for many internationally reputed journals. Under his guidance, many journals have achieved good standard and accreditation (/).
Prof. Alam has been identified as an influential speaker for seminar, symposium, workshop, training and classes. He can strongly stimulus the audience while he talks various issue especially, research methodology, writing manuscript, public and economic policy, education economics and policy, philosophy of education, education business, Islam in Education, Education Management & Leadership and professional development. With a vast, wider and multi- disciplinary experience of research, teaching, and education background, Prof. Alam can serve the need of various schools/ faculties (i.e. School of Education, School of Economics, School of Business and management, and School of Public policy and Administration)
Gazi has contributed widely for UM's mission towards international ranking.
Gazi was born in a village of Khulna District, Bangladesh. After receiving HSC from Bangladesh, he moved to the USA for further studies, latter he procured his higher studies in the UK and worked there. Mr. Alam received his MBA majoring in Business Research in 1999 from the USA. Further to the MBA, in order to work in area of education economics and policy, he later studied M.A. in International Education and Development in 2003 at the University of Sussex, UK. Dr. Gazi Mahabubul Alam obtained Ph.D. from The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK in 2007 in Education Policy and Administration and Economic (/).
References
http://umexpert.um.edu.my/cv_papar.php?id=550e6d93ab2dc6db46015cbf7e21ede3
http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/1581/
http://www.iium.edu.my/educ/people/academic-staff
http://www.sciencewatch.com/dr/fmf/2011/11janfmf/11janfmfAlam/
http://scholar.google.com.my/scholar?q=gazi+mahabubul+alam&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=on
http://scienceone.net/2011/10/11/appointment-of-new-editor-in-chief%E2%80%8F/
http://scialert.net/jindex.php?issn=1991-0886
http://scialert.net/jindex.php?issn=1812-5654