Professor Md Abdul Wadud is a teacher of the Department of Economics, Rajshahi University. He joined as a lecturer in 1994 and has been promoted to a full Professor in 2006. Since then, he has been serving as a Professor of the Department of Economics. In 2018, he has been honoured as a Grade 1 Professor. He obtained first classes with first positions in both B.S.S. (Honours) and M.S.S. in Economics Examinations from the Rajshahi University. In 1999 he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in Economics. He is experienced in the use of advanced qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. He has to his credit a wide range of research works; his papers have been published in, among others, Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Indian Economic Review, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Bangladesh Studies (USA), Economics Bulletin (USA). Bangladesh Economic Studies, Empirical Economics Letters, Empirical Economics Review, Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy. He has been serving as the Managing Editor of Empirical Economics Letters, a monthly international journal of economics, since 2002 and Empirical Economics Review, a quarterly international journal of economics, since 2007, among others. His main research interests include, among others, macroeconometrics, inclusive growth and development, microeconometrics, agricultural economics, microcredit and food security, efficiency and productivity analysis, time series economics and trade & development. He led to and worked in various research projects funded by RDRS, DFID, SANDEE, IFC, Institute of Microfinance and The World Bank. He presented research papers in various national and international conferences and workshops at home and abroad. He visited USA, UK, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, among others, in various capacities. He is a member of various national and international professional associations of economics.