Chancellor

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

Chancellor · Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur

Introduction

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir (born 26 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi politician and educator who has served as the president of Bangladesh since August 2026.

A senior member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, he served twice as a member of parliament for the Thakurgaon-1 constituency and held cabinet posts as Minister of State for Agriculture and Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2001 to 2006 and as Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives in his second term. He was also the party's longest-serving secretary-general, a post he resigned from upon accepting BNP's presidential nomination.