Mushtaque Chowdhury is the former vice chair of BRAC, one of the largest development organizations in the world. Previously, he was BRAC's executive director, founding director of the Research and Evaluation Division, and founding dean of the BRAC University James P. Grant School of Public Health. Chowdhury is also Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University, making him the first Bangladeshi to hold a professorial position in an Ivy League university. He also served as the senior advisor and acting managing director for the Rockefeller Foundation and as a research fellow at Harvard University. He is the author and editor of several books, including 50 Years of Bangladesh: Advances in Health.