Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 8th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Chittagong. In 2017, he was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in the education category.

Early life and education

Serajuddin was born on 1 December 1937 to a Bengali Muslim family in Kanchana, Satkania,

Chittagong District Chittagong District, renamed the Chattogram District, is a district located in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Chattogram Division. The port city of Chattogram, which is the second largest city in Bangladesh, is ...

. In 1959, he graduated from

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with a first class honours Master of Arts in History. He gained his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of London in 1964. In 1967, Serajuddin became a qualified barrister-at-Law from the

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of London.

Career

Serajuddin returned to Chittagong in the

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, where he served as a faculty member of the Department of History at the University of Chittagong. He finished his post-doctoral degree at the University of London in 1974. In 2012, he was made Professor Emeritus of the same university.

References

Living people People from Satkania Upazila Vice-Chancellors of the University of Chittagong Recipients of the Ekushey Padak University of Chittagong faculty Honorary Fellows of Bangla Academy 1937 births 21st-century Bengalis 21st-century Bangladeshi people 21st-century Muslims Bangladeshi Sunni Muslims Alumni of the University of London University of Dhaka alumni Lincoln's Inn {{Bangladesh-academic-bio-stub