Chancellor, Sonargaon University
President, People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh since August 2026. The President of the Republic is Chancellor of the universities of Bangladesh, and it is in that office that he presides over Sonargaon University.
Born in Thakurgaon in 1948 and educated at Dhaka College and the University of Dhaka, he began his working life as a teacher of economics, at Dhaka College and later at Thakurgaon Government College. He was elected chairman of Thakurgaon municipality in 1988 and has represented Thakurgaon-1 in Parliament, serving as State Minister for Agriculture and then for Civil Aviation and Tourism, and as Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 2011 until 2026.
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