Mesbah Kamal

Mesbah Kamal is a Bangladeshi academic. He is the vice chancellor of Royal University of Dhaka (RUD). He was the vice chancellor of the Bangladesh University (BU). And he was also vice chancellor of Primeasia University. He is a professor in the department of history at Dhaka University.

Kamal is the chairman of the Research and Development Collective and the general secretary of the Bangladesh Adivasi Odhikar Andolon. He is the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh Dalit Forum. He father was Manzoor Ahmed.

Kamal completed his bachelor's and master's in history at the University of Dhaka in 1980 and 1981 respectively. He finished his PhD from the University of Dhaka in 2015 and his thesis was on Manabendra Narayan Larma and the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict.

Kamal has been critical of the politics of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Khaleda Zia describing it as destructive nationalism. He claimed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party lost the general election in 2018 stance for Pakistan and against the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Kamal was appointed vice chancellor of Primeasia University on 21 May 2021.

Kamal was appointed vice chancellor of Royal University of Dhaka on 22 July 2022. In May 2025, an attempted murder case was filed against Rashid over a student of Alia Madrasa getting injured in Old Dhaka during protests against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024.