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President

Syed Saad Andaleeb, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Chair, Marketing
Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
Jordan Road, Erie, PA 16563-1400, USA
President: Bangladesh Development Initiative (www.bdiusa.org)
Editor: Journal of Bangladesh Studies
(814)-898-6431; ssa4@psu.edu

B.S. Chemical Engineering (1976), M.B.A. (1977), University of New Hampshire, USA. Ph.D. Business Administration (1989), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Dr. Andaleeb is the Editor, Journal of Bangladesh Studies, and has published over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles, edited four books, and serves on four international journals’ editorial boards. He has been awarded the Senior Fulbright Fellowship and selected twice for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. He is currently a member of the Discipline Peer Review Committee for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. He has consulted for The World Bank (Dhaka), United Nations Development Program (Dhaka), United Nations Funds for Population Activities (Damascus), Food & Agriculture Organization (Rome), International Fund for Agricultural Development (Rome), International Labor Organization & Export Promotion Bureau (Dhaka), Center for Population Management & Research (Dhaka), Export Promotion Bureau (Dhaka), Ministry of Education, Bangladesh, and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Dhaka). He has been involved with AACSB Accreditation work; served as a senator, University Faculty Senate; was selected for the University Promotion & Tenure Committee; and is currently a member of the Graduate Council, Pennsylvania State University.