Hafiza Khatun

Hafiza Khatun (born 12 July 1954) is a Bangladeshi academic and a former vice-chancellor of the Pabna University of Science and Technology. She is a professor and former chairperson of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Dhaka. She is a member of the University Grants Commission.

Early life Khatun was born on 12 July 1954. She graduated from Kamrunnessa Government Girls High School and Begum Badrunnesa Government Girls' College in 1969 and 1972 respectively.

Khatun is a director of the Center for Disaster Research Training & Management at the University of Dhaka. She wrote the Environment and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh in 2018. She wrote Disaster and Despair People at Risk in 2019.

Khatun was appointed the vice-chancellor of the Pabna University of Science & Technology in April 2022. She is the first woman to be appointed vice-chancellor of the Pabna University of Science & Technology.

In February 2024, Khatun was elected vice-president of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. She is a member of the Bangladesh Regional Science Association.