Wahidul Haq facts for kids

Wahidul Haque (c. 1933 – 3 July 2020) was the Finance Minister of Bangladesh. He was also an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Career

Haq completed his master's degree at University of Dhaka in 1955 and did his PhD at Stanford University in California, USA. He was professor of economics at Islamabad University in 1969. He has taught at Dhaka University. He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley for a while, then joined the University of Toronto as a professor and settled there permanently. He was the finance minister during Ershad's rule from September 1988 to May 1990.

Death

Wahidul Haq died on 3 July 2020.