Hossain Zillur Rahman

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Hossain Zillur Rahman
হোসেন জিল্লুর রহমান
Rahman in 2016
Born	(1951-07-26) 26 July 1951 (age 73) Chittagong, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	University of Dhaka University of Manchester
Spouse	Mahbuba Haque

Hossain Zillur Rahman is an academic, economist and policy maker from Bangladesh. He led the drafting of the poverty reduction strategy of the government in 2005 and was a member of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation (ISACPA).^{[citation needed]} He founded the Dhaka-based think-tank Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) in 1996 and prior to that was for over twenty years a leading researcher at the Bangladesh Institute of development Studies.

On 9 January 2008, he was appointed as an adviser (cabinet minister) to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, led by Fakhruddin Ahmed and was entrusted with the ministries of commerce and education. He served in this capacity till evening of 6 January 2009. He was an Inspire Fellow at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, US and was awarded the Dr. John Meyer Global Citizenship Award by the Institute in November, 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In 2013, he was awarded gold medal by Rotary International Bangladesh.^{[citation needed]} Currently the Executive Chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC).