Anisuzzaman

Anisuzzaman (born 1951) is a Bangladeshi philosopher and university administrator. He is the first vice-chancellor of Global University Bangladesh, and, has been serving since 2019. Most of his career was spent at Dhaka University as a professor of philosophy.

Biography Anisuzzaman was born on 1 March 1951, in Jessore, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to Shahida Begam and Abul Hossain Molla.

He completed his B.A.(Hons.) and M.A. degrees in philosophy from Dhaka University in 1972 and 1973, respectively. In October 1977, he joined the University of Chittagong as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. In 1980 he joined the Department of Philosophy of the University of Dhaka as a lecturer. Next year, in 1981, he completed an MPhil degree from the Dhaka University and in 1982, he became an assistant professor there. There he earned a PhD in 1988 for his dissertation, The Concept of Man: Dualism and the Western Tradition.

That year, he became an Associate Professor at the University of Dhaka, and in 1993 he became a Professor. He also served as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy for two months in 1997. In the same year, he left on a Commonwealth Fellowship for King's College London. In 2023, he was reappointed for a second four-year term by Mohammed Shahabuddin, the Honorable President of Bangladesh and Chancellor of the university. He resigned on 7 December 2024 due to irrational pressure from a small section of students. However, he withdrew his letter of resignation the next day, 8 December 2024 due to heavy demand from the overwhelming majority of the students and has been working since then.