About
Professional Summary
Professor Gazi Mahabubul Alam, PhD, FRSA is an internationally recognized Public Policy Analyst with an especial focus to Higher Education and Skills Development. Countries of his work experience include Malaysia, Bangladesh, UK, Canada and the USA. He works for both institute of Higher Education and Partner for Development. He is currently imparting the role of President of Centre For Asian Climate and Environmental Policy Studies, (CACEPS), Waterloo University, University Avenue West, Windsor, Canada. Moreover, he is a Professor of Education Policy and Economics at the UPM, Selangor.
Professor Alam also served as a Professor of Public Policy and Chief Consultant at the Academic Performance Enhancement Unit, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. Prior to join with the UM, he worked as a policy specialist (skills) at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Professor Alam also served as the President and Vice-president of Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE). Upon completion of the tenure, he currently holds the post of Chief Advisor to the Board of Governors of the ACSE. His adjunct role in Bangladesh includes a number of institutions of higher education such East West University, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh Open University and Dhaka University.
He is one of the main contributors of National Skills development Policy- Bangladesh. Alam acquired a Master degree with a particular focus in International Education and Development from the University of Sussex, UK and a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK. He received a distinguished fellowship (FRSA) from the Royal Society of Arts, UK. He has published a number of papers and they received a notable amount of citation. His recent contributions are included in some high ranked journals such as Comparative Education Review (CER)-University of Chicago, Technological Forecasting and Social Change-Elsevier, Higher Education-Springer, International Journal of Educational Reforms-Sage, Business Process Management Journal-Emerald.
Education
Academic Background-
Ph.D. The University of Nottingham, UK Education Policy and Administration and Economic | Completed: 2006
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Masters University of Sussex, London, UK International Education and Development | Completed: 2003
Publications (151)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
Educational Pathway, Program Type, Socioeconomic Status, and Graduates' Labor Market Attainment for Sustainable Development
2026
Look how sustainable I am! Effects of communication focus, individuals' differences on intention to use food waste fighting mobile applications
2026
Ownership structure and technological innovation: an investigation of Tunisian agri-food companies
2026
Whether Civil Service Commission maps skills to align education, recruitment testing, and training, or marginalize graduates with public administration majors?
2026
Managing digital bridges: How online social capital translates digital literacy into higher education access
2026
Residential Colleges as Equalizers for Sustainable Development? Examining Impacts on Sustainable Education and Equity Across Gender and
SES
2026
Investigating Sustainable Development in Education: Does Digital Literacy Infused by
SES
‐Driven Social Capital Make a Difference in Secondary School Graduates' Access to Higher Education?
2026
A global-scale examination of associations between education and climate vulnerability and adaptability
2026
The Challenges for Urban Floating Parents to Provide Free-Basic Education for Their Children in Bangladesh
2026
Does a degree in medicine or a specialist programme or socioeconomic status advance the career of general practitioners in primary healthcare?
2026
Can digital literacy shaped by SES-driven social capital predict secondary school graduates' access to higher education?: Exploring the impact of gender
2026
Does the Double Reduction Policy Mitigate the Academic Gaps Caused by SES and Urban-Rural Settings?
2026
The Relationship Between Ornamental and Managerial Leaders in the Private University Sector: Who Runs the Show and Makes a Difference?
2025
Does international collaboration enhance internationalization of higher education for a non-native English environment ? A comparative analysis of NBUIs, China?
2025
Impact of private tutoring for university admission and subsequently on students' academic results
2025
Does the concept of residential college offset the effects of socioeconomic status on university students' academic performance?
2025
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria
2025
Does the Civil Service Commission in Bangladesh map skills to align education, recruitment testing, and training?
2025
Sustainable Education, Sustainability in Education and Education for Sustainable Development: The Reconciliation of Variables and the Path of Education Research in an Era of Technologization
2025
The Impact of Remittance on Financial Development in the Recipient Countries: A Comparison Between Highly- and Low-skilled Migrants
2025
Effectiveness of Public Secondary Schools: Exploring Distributive Leadership and Teacher Autonomy in Northwest Nigeria
2025
Why the Scholarly Publishing Community Has Failed to Contain Predatory Journals? An Institutional and Systemic Analysis
2025
Do residential colleges promote sustainable education and reduce educational disparities based on gender and socioeconomic background?
2025
What Makes a Difference for Graduates’ Success: Exploring Program Type, Duration, and Socioeconomic Status for Policy Reforms in Higher Education
2025
Access, attendance and performance in urban K8 education during pre- and post-COVID-19 restrictions in Bangladesh: comparison of students in slums, tin-sheds and flats
2024
Whether Socioeconomic Status Matters in Accessing Residential College: Role of RC in Addressing Academic Achievement Gaps to Ensure Sustainable Education
2024
Marketing Strategies for Internationalization in China’s Higher Education: An Ally or Barrier for Sustainable Development?
2024
How relevant is the individual’s levels of innovativeness in the investment decisions in equity crowdfunding campaigns?
2024
Commercial higher education strategies for recruiting international students in China: a catalyst or obstacle for sustainable education and learning?
2024
Has Secondary Science Program Become an Elite Urban Education Product in the Former Colonized Nation?
2024
Whether mismatch finds match in the digitalized era: A comparison of five types of graduates to align business education and banking jobs
2024
Whether academics’ job performance makes a difference to burnout and the effect of psychological counselling—comparison of four types of performers
2024
Do Chinese Residential Colleges Narrow the Education Disparity Caused by Socioeconomic Status? A Comparison of Public and Private Universities Using Two Main Approaches to Assess Disparities in Access and Academic Attainment
2024
The Relationships between Job Performance, Job Burnout, and Psychological Counselling: A Perspective on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2024
Three Parameters of Urban K-8 Education During Pre- and Post-Covid-19 Restrictions: Comparison of Students of Slums, Tin-Sheds, and Flats in Bangladesh
2023
How emotions from content social relevance mediate social media engagement: evidence from European supermarkets during the COVID-19 pandemic
2023
Sustainable Education and Sustainability in Education: The Reality in the Era of Internationalisation and Commodification in Education—Is Higher Education Different?
2023
Has Secondary Science Education Become an Elite Product in Emerging Nations?—A Perspective of Sustainable Education in the Era of MDGs and SDGs
2023
Stress-inducing or performance-enhancing? Safety measure or cause of mistrust? The paradox of digital surveillance in the workplace
2023
Effect of Remittance-Sending Countries’ Type on Financial Development in Recipient Countries: Can the Pandemic Make a Difference?
2023
Does a vocational education program prepare competent graduates for further academic programs?
2023
Digitalization as a driver of transformation towards sustainable performance in wine tourism – the Italian case
2023
Job Burnout amongst University Administrative Staff Members in China—A Perspective on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2023
The Impact of Accessing Education via Smartphone Technology on Education Disparity—A Sustainable Education Perspective
2023
Educational achievements and export earnings: a comparison between leader and follower countries
2023
Environmental MCS package, perceived environmental uncertainty and green performance: In green dynamic capabilities and investment in environmental management perspectives.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2023
Supporting youths to continue further education in emerging nations: food for education intervention or education for food policy?
2022
What makes a difference for further advancement of engineers: socioeconomic background or education programs?
2022
Sustainable Development in Higher Engineering Education: A Comparative Study between Private and Public Polytechnics
2022
The criticality of FDI in Environmental Degradation through financial development and economic growth: Implications for promoting the green sector
2022
Can sustainable practices protect investors during financial market instability? A multi-sector analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
2022
The Relationship between Figureheads and Managerial Leaders in the Private University Sector: A Decentralised, Competency-Based Leadership Model for Sustainable Higher Education
2022
Using bibliometric analysis to map innovative business models for vertical farm entrepreneurs.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2022
Sustainable achievement of selective KPIs of different players in education: An update for policy discourse and role of tertiary education.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2022
Does MBA’s paradigm transformation follow business education’s philosophy? A comparison of academic and job-performance and SES among five types of MBAian
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2022
RETRACTED: Does an MBA degree advance business management skill or in fact create horizontal and vertical mismatches?
2021
Do Urbanized Socioeconomic Background or Education Programs Support Engineers for Further Advancement?
2021
Does GATS’ Influence on Private University Sector’s Growth Ensure ESD or Develop City ‘Sustainability Crisis’—Policy Framework to Respond COP21
2021
Does online technology provide sustainable HE or aggravate diploma disease? Evidence from Bangladesh—a comparison of conditions before and during COVID-19
2021
Can online higher education be an active agent for change? —comparison of academic success and job-readiness before and during COVID-19
2021
Online technology: Sustainable higher education or diploma disease for emerging society during emergency—comparison between pre and during COVID-19
2021
Phytochemical and biological studies on proteins isolated from different microalgal species.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2021
Clustering education policy in secondary provision: impact on higher education and job market.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2020
Quality of HE in private universities of Bangladesh: the four fundamental perspectives.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2017
2016
Sustainability challenges to giant freshwater prawn (GFP) firming sector in Bangladesh: Lesson to ensure sustainable economic growth.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2016
Impact of el-nino on agro-economics in Malaysia and the surrounding regions: An analysis of the events from 1997-98.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2016
Determinants of institutional delivery among women in bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
Dual burden of underweight and overweight among women in Bangladesh: Patterns, prevalence, and sociodemographic correlates.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
Climate change adaptation provisions for the agricultural sector in Malaysia.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
How do environmental changes challenge the sustainable development of Asia?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
Price and Trade Mechanism for Palm and Soybean Oils: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development between Asia and Contemporary World
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
Child marriage in Bangladesh: Trends and determinants.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2015
A CGEM analysis of the impact of the financial crisis on the algerian economy.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2014
Role of pharmacy education in national development of Bangladesh: A scope for public and private sectors.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2014
Quality assurance strategies for affiliated institutions of HE: A case study of the affiliates under National University of Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2014
Fisheries sector and development of maldives: Can vocational and technical education help.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
The role of education for deployment of fisheries sector in Maldives
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Documentation and management of conflicts in science classrooms: Experience from Nigeria.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
State of pharmacy education in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Impact of gas industry on sustainable economy in Nigeria: Further estimations through eview.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Negative correlation between age of subjects and length of the appendix in Bangladeshi males.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
The impact of climate changes on livestock sector: Challenging experience from Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Global warming and climate change: Prospects and challenges toward long-term policies in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Likelihood ratio type test and its critical values for structural change of unknown changepoint.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Livestock husbandry strategy in alleviating poverty in the haor area of bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2013
Meristic, morphometrics and length-weight relationship of tropical silverside, Atherinomorus duodecimalis (Valenciennes in cuvier and valenciennes, 1835) in seagrass and mangrove habitats of Tinggi Island, Johor, Malaysia.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Foreign direct investment into oil sector and economic growth in Nigeria.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Foreign direct investment and environmental degradation of oil exploitation: The experience of Niger Delta.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Analysis of offshore economic benefit and growth through the proper uses of the utility and scope of fisheries and livestock (animal and veterinary): A guideline to the MOFL in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Parasites of three Indian minor carps of rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Analysis of INSHORE economic benefit and growth through the proper uses of the utility and scope of fisheries and livestock: A Guideline to the MOFL in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Community participation on health and family planning programs in Bangladesh: The role of education and knowledge on HFP for plummeting pharmaceutical costing.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
An e-paradigm to accumulate data and information for participatory approach education policy: An ict initiative of a faculty.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Fecundity and temporal reproductive cycle of four finger threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) in Malaysian coastal water.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Climate change issues: Challenges for natural resource management in Bangladesh-A way forward.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
The role and responsibility of education system in ensuring pharmacological and medical services for animals and livestock in Bangladesh: A further essence for environment and climate change.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Male infertility in Bangladesh: What serve better-pharmacological help or awareness programme?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Oral performance of EFL learners: A comparative study on effectiveness of teaching and knowledge management between native and non-native English teachers.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Role of fisheries sector on sustainable development of maldives: How can education help?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Climate change concern to cattle feed in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
Energy consumption, pollutant emissions and economic growth: China experience.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2012
How to cope with dengue in developing countries like Pakistan?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
What offers solution to the poverty reduction of the Haor people in Bangladesh? Seasonal migration or a new inshore economic livelihood policy?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
An analysis of animal health and veterinary facilities in coping the climate change in Bangladesh: What education system can offer for the benefit.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Early childhood mortality and affecting factors in developing countries: An experience from Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
The impacts of climate change on public health: Exploring the link to pharmacological knowledge and education.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
The impacts of climate change on animal health and economy: A way forward for policy option.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Spam influence on business and economy: theoretical and experimental studies for textual anti-spam filtering using mature document processing and naive Bayesian classifier.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
SSME architecture design in reserving parking problems in Malaysia.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Impact of teachers' professional development on school improvement-An analysis at Bangladesh standpoint.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Site-based management: Impact of leader's roles on institutional improvement.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Securing peer-to-peer mobile communications using public key cryptography: New security strategy.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Different economic and policy perspectives in micro population for sustainable development: A study of the haor livelihood in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Contextualization of science knowledge: A case study of Malaysian and Nigerian serving and pre-service teachers.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
National Development and student politics in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Principals' roles under school based management that influence school improvement.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Monetary union for the development process in the east African community: business cycle synchronization approach.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2011
Securing electronic medical records transmissions over unsecured communications: An overview for better medical governance.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Novel multi-cover steganography using remote sensing image and general recursion neural cryptosystem.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Development and validation of measuring instruments of contextualization of science among malaysian and nigerian serving and pre-service chemistry teachers.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
A new hybrid module for skin detector using fuzzy inference system structure and explicit rules.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
A novel hybrid module of skin detector using grouping histogram technique for bayesian method and segment adjacent-nested technique for neural network.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Do developing countries need Education laws to manage its system or are ethics and a market-driven approach sufficient?.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
The impact of foreign lecturers' recruitment on higher education: An analysis from the Malaysian standpoint.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Suitability of using SOAP protocol to secure electronic medical record databases transmission.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Secure topology for electronic medical record transmissions.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Increase reliability for skin detector using backprobgation neural network and heuristic rules based on YCbCr.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
StegoMos: A secure novel approach of high rate data hidden using mosaic image and ANN-BMP cryptosystem.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Impact of spam advertisement through e-mail: A study to assess the influence of the anti-spam on the e-mail marketing.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Using the features of mosaic image and AES cryptosystem to implement an extremely high rate and high secure data hidden: Analytical study.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Who gains from EFA - State business of education or private higher education business in developing nations? A study to understand the policy impact in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Information and communication technology for participatory based decision-making-E-management for administrative efficiency in higher education.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Who gains from brain and body drain business-developing/developed world or individuals: A comparative study between skilled and semi/unskilled emigrants.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
E-management for administrative efficiency in higher education through participatory decision-making.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Evaluation of 3D environments and virtual realities in science teaching and learning: The need to go beyond perception referents.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of 2 and 3D visualizations in students' understanding of structures of organic molecules.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Is 3D just an addition of 1 to 2 or is it more enhancing than 2D visualizations?
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
An Investigation into students' study habit in volumetric analysis in the senior secondary provision: A case study in Ondo State, Nigeria.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Rethinking development and sustainability of African economy: The roles of science education.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Volumetric analysis and chemistry students performance: Combined influence of study habit, physiological and psychological factors.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Quest for a better operation system in education: Privatization and teacher educationalization or voucherilization glimpsing from consumer and product perspectives.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
On the accuracy of hiding information metrics: Counterfeit protection for education and important certificates.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Novel approach for high (Secure and rate) data hidden within triplex space for executable file.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2010
Rate of return of education in Bangladesh: An investigation.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
Can governance and regulatory control ensure private higher education as business or public goods in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
The role of agriculture education and training on agriculture economics and national development of Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
Return from education system in Bangladesh: An investigation on comparative flashback scenario.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
The impact of introducing a business marketing approach to education: A study on private HE in Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2009
The role of technical and vocational education in the national development of Bangladesh.
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
2008