26/07/2022
in 1971, Sajeeb Wazed was born in Dhaka, amidst a furious war for liberation of . His father was a nuclear scientist and his mother would become the prime minister of đ§đŠ. His grandfather would become the founding father of Bangladesh.
âĢī¸ His grandparents were killed in August 1975, and young Sajeeb would be barred from entering Bangladesh by a military regime. He then did his schooling âī¸in đŽđŗ, and moved to America đēđ¸ to pursue his computer science undergraduate and public policy graduate studies đ from University of Texas and Harvard University respectively.
Sajeeb rose to the occasion. In his 30s, he became an advocate for democracy in Bangladesh when an unelected military-backed regime ruled over Bangladesh in 2007. He helped restore a politically elected government. He would start advocating for a new progressive tech-advanced đļ Bangladesh.
Sajeeb became the ICT affairs advisor đąđ¨âđŧ to Bangladesh's Prime Minister. He is regarded as the mastermind of the đĨđĄ initiative, which would accelerate e-governance đģand transform the country's IT industry in the span of 15 years.
Sajeeb has become a voice đ of the youth in Bangladesh's policy reform circles. He is now helping policymakers make Bangladesh a knowledge-driven economy and deal with the challenges of the 4IR.
A visionary, a strategist. wishes him a very happy birthday. đđ