Farid Ahammad Sobhani, PhD

Dr. Farid A. Sobhani is a Professor in the School of Business and Economics at United International University (UIU), Dhaka. He is also serving as the Director of MBA, EMBA & MIHRM programs at UIU. He is a Visiting Professor at ARI-Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia. He is a Registered Scrum Master^TM at Scrum Inc., USA; Lead, AiE Asia; and a Board Member at Agile in Education USA, New York. He is the President of Bangladesh Society for Private University Academics (BSPUA) and the Vice President of Federation of Bangladesh Human Resource Organizations (FBHRO). He is the Founding Chairman of Bangladesh Society for Human Resources Management (BSHRM), Chattogram. Dr. Sobhani started his career as a corporate professional around 26 years back. He served as a Financial Analyst cum Company Secretary at Credit Rating Information and Services Limited (CRISL), Dhaka. He was a Professor and Dean at Daffodil International University (DIU) and International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC). He served as an external member at Rajshahi University and Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP). He taught in the MBA Program of Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and in the Executive Development Program (EDP) of Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTex), Dhaka. After completion of BBA and MBA programs in Accounting from University of Chittagong, he obtained his second Master’s in Project Management from University of Antwerp, Belgium. He did his PhD in Corporate Sustainability & HR Disclosure from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia. He is a trainer in the fields of HR, accounting, leadership and life-skills. He published 11 (eleven) books and magazines. He obtained awards and research grants at home and abroad. He published more than 100 articles in Journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newspapers. His areas of research intertest are corporate disclosure, HR, leadership, and agile in education. He was a Coordinator of USIM-IIUC PhD Collaboration Program at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Malaysia. He supervised PhD students at home and abroad; and examined doctoral theses as an external examiner at globally reputed universities in Australia, Malaysia and India. He explored 21 countries around the world, presented research papers, and delivered keynote speeches in many international conferences in Asia, Europe, Australia, and United States.