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M G Mortaza (Md. Golam Mortaza) is an young economist of Bangladesh. He is broadly known as a macroeconomist of the country.

Education Mortaza completed Bachelor of Social Science degree in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 2002. From the same institution, he completed his Masters of Social Science in Economics in 2004. Later, he completed another Masters in Economics from Dalhousie University, Canada (https://www.dal.ca/academics/programs/undergraduate/economics.html) in 2005.

Professional Career During April-June 2004, Mortaza started his professional career while he used to work at Centre for Policy Dialgoue (CPD), a Dhaka-based civil society think tank, as an Intern. He quickly promoted to Programme Associate in the same organization. Then he went to Canada (Dalhousie University) for higher studies. After coming back in 2005, he joined in the same organization as Senior Research Associate. He worked there until June 2006 before joining at the Policy Analysis Unit (PAU), Bangladesh Bank (the central bank of Bangladesh) as Research Economist. Bangladesh Bank created a unit, PAU, for the first time, which used to work on policy related issues and publish high quality research papers. The unit was funded by the World Bank Institute under its Central Bank Strengthening Project (CBSP).

Publication Mortaza has several publications in the central bank of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Bank (http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/pub/research/workingpaper/workingpaperlist.php).