Mansoob Murshed is a professor of International Industrial Economics at the

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whose research interests are development, globalisation and conflict / post-conflict reconstruction. Alongside his post at Birmingham he also holds a Professorship at the

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(ISS) The Hague, on the Economies of Conflict and Peace. He holds an honorary fellowship at the

Peace Research Institute Oslo The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO; ) is a private research institution in peace and conflict studies, based in Oslo, Norway, with around 100 employees. It was founded in 1959 by a group of Norwegian researchers led by Johan Galtung, who was ...

(PRIO) and his having been the first to be awarded the ''Prince Claus rotating Chair in Development and Equity'' (established in memory of Prince Claus, a Prince Consort of the Netherlands). Murshed's father was

Syed Mahbub Murshed Syed Mahbub Murshed (11 February 1911 – 3 April 1979) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist. He served as the Chief Justice of East Pakistan High Court during 1964–1967. Early life and education Murshed was born to his parents Syed Abdus Sale ...

, Chief Justice of East Pakistan High Court, and mother was Lyla Arzumand Banu.

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