theSTEPs Institute is a cluster-based research institute which conducts research and training programs by providing consultation, targeted training and advisory services in National Skill Development sector. Hasan Imam, PhD
Chairman
Hasan Imam, PhD founded theSTEPs.org movement in 2012; the organization was subsequently granted Association status by the Bangladesh Government. A pioneer in Bangladesh’s investment management industry, Dr. Imam is the founder and Chairman of RACE Financial Group, a portfolio of companies specializing in capital market services. Dr. Imam has served on Government of Bangladesh’s Advisory Board for the Bangladesh Infrastructure Financing Fund, on Bangladesh Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and on SEC’s Capital Market Advisory Board. He is the current President of the Association of Asset Management Companies and Mutual Funds. Before Bangladesh, Dr. Imam spent over a decade on Wall Street as Vice President and Managing Director at some of the world’s leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. He was a Partner at Thomas Weisel Partners, specializing in financing growth companies in the technology and bio-medical sectors in the USA. Dr. Imam holds a MBA from Yale University, a Doctorate in Physics, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Financial Economics. He is a John Olin Fellow of Yale University. Pima Imam
CEO
the STEPs
Pima Imam is the current Chief Executive Officer of the STEPS.org and a Founding member of the University for Social Transformation through Education (USTE). Imam has over three decades of experience in social development, including national skill development through vocational training, promoting women empowerment and bringing hundreds of rural women under the financial inclusion net. Imam worked as an educator of underprivileged communities in United Kingdom. Her career in education has been focused on empowering immigrant communities, ethnic minorities and refugees in the UK through education and cultural training and thereby helping them to achieve social integration and reach their maximum potential in income generating careers. She spent seventeen years as an instructor and Head of School at South and City College, Birmingham, one of the largest Further Education colleges in the UK responsible for developing literacy, numeracy and employability skills in areas of multiple deprivation including Handsworth, Lozells, Nechells and Small Heath. Enriched by this experience, Ms Pima conceptualized the University for Social Transformation through Education (USTE), a STEPs project in Bangladesh.
