Hajera Mahtab

Hajera Mahtab is a Bangladeshi physician, researcher and a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. She was President of the Endocrine Society of Bangladesh. She is a member of the Association of Physicians of Bangladesh. She is a member of the trustees board of the Bangladesh Diabetic Foundation. She is a member of the trustee board of the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences.

Mahtab was the Chief Consultant of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department at the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences General Hospital. She is the professor emeritus of BIRDEM and Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences. She is an advisor of Centre for Global Health Research.

Early life and education Mahtab was born on 22 September 1941 in Calcutta, West Bengal, British India. She married Fasihuddin Mahtab, son of Pakistan National Assembly member Mahtabuddin Sarker.

Mahtab finished her Senior Cambridge with first division. In 1982, she was appointed director of the Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes of the World Health Organization.