DU Correspondent :
A two-day international conference on Business and Economics began on Tuesday at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University (DU). The theme of the conference is `Reinventing Business for the 21st Century’.
The Faculty of Business Studies of DU organized the conference, while DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the conference as the chief guest.
While speaking, DU VC urged the leaders of business community, academicians and researchers to work together for upgrading dignity of human being across the world.
`We should equip ourselves with humanitarian and moral values for safeguarding the diversity, dignity and equality of global population and we must close the gap between the rich and the poor,” he said.
The VC also said that DU always stood for democracy, equality, liberty, peace, human rights, poverty reduction, secularism, scientific development, cultural enrichment and the like for overall progress of humanity.
Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies of DU Professor Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam presided over the inaugural session while Pro-VC (Academic) Professor Nasreen Ahmad and Pro-VC (Administration) Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman addressed it as special guests.
Besides, Pro-VC of Swinburne University, Australia Professor Berdine Van Gramberg, Dean of Business School of the University of Essex, UK Professor Geoffre T. Wood and Professor of Tufts University, USA Partha S. Ghosh addressed the opening session as conference speakers.
Co-Chair of the conference Professor Sadiqul Islam gave vote of thanks.
Professor Hasibur Rashid of Management and Information System Department and Sadia Noor Khan, Lecturer of Banking and Insurance Department, were present, among others.
A total of 100 teachers and researchers from Bangladesh, the USA, the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Kuwait are participating in the workshop.
