Masudul Alam Choudhury (born January 1, 1948) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian economist and International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Masudul Alam Choudhury was born in Calcutta, India on January 1, 1948. He attended the universities of Dhaka, Islamabad, and Toronto for his advanced education in mathematics and economics, earning a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1977. He moved to Canada from Bangladesh and taught economics at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada for twenty two years.
Apart from that, he has taught at various universities around the world, including the University of Toronto, Sultan Qaboos University (National University of Oman), King Fahd University, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, National University Malaysia, University of Regina, and Trent University.
Although an economist and mathematician by training, Professor Choudhury has contributed to the associated fields of finance, sociology and the philosophy of economics (participative dynamics, circular causation, ethics and well-being). He is the founder of the epistemic field of Tawhid (monotheistic law) and the Islamic socio-scientific world-system, with extensive theoretical and applied studies in the corresponding fields of economics, society and science. In all these areas his focus for much of his career has been in the area of participatory dynamics related to diverse problems of economics, finance, and socio-scientific systems studied in the epistemic worldview. He taught economics for twenty-two years until his retirement from Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2008. He graduated with his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977. Professor Dr. Masudul Alam Choudhury presently lectures on the Post-Graduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance in the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers Ph.D. level subjects, namely, Islamic Epistemology of Economics and Finance; Islamic Microeconomic Theory; Islamic Macroeconomic Theory; Advanced Islamic Economics and Finance; and Islamic Comparative Development Studies. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE). This international journal is published by the University of Darussalam Press, Gontor, Indonesia.