Wasim Alimuz Zaman, also known as Wasim Zaman, was a Bangladeshi civil servant, population scientist and United National official who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.[1][2]
Zaman joined the United Nations Population Fund in 1988.[5] From 1995 to 1998, he was the United Nations Population Fund envoy to Bhutan and India.[5] From 1996 to 1998, he was part of the United Nations theme group for HIV and AIDS in India and again from 2000 to 2003.[5] He was part of the United Nations Population Fund Country Technical Services Team for South and West Asia in Kathmandu from 1998 to 2008.[5]
In 2008, Zaman was made the special envoy of the United Nations Population Fund to Palestine.[5][7]
Zaman was a member of the editorial board of the Asia Pacific Population Journal.[5]
Bibliography
Land Policies in Developing Countries: Select Bibliography on Agrarian Reform (1977-1983) (co-author Sein Lin, 1983)[8]
Public Participation in Development and Health Programs: Lessons from Rural Bangladesh (1984)[9][10]
Inter-linkages between population dynamics and development in national planning case studies from Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia[11]
Improving Access of Young People to Education and Services for Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV, and Gender: Promising Practices in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam (2009)[12]
Personal life
Zaman's wife lived in Malaysia while their three daughters live in the United States.[3]
Death
Zaman died on a attack by the Taliban on Serena Hotel near Arg, Kabul on 20 March 2014.[3][5] He was living in Malaysia where he was the executive director of the International Council on Management of Population Programmes and had arrived in Kabul the day before the attack for a work trip.[3]
^Medicine (U.S.), National Library of. Current Catalog: cumulative listing. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institues of Health, National Library of Medicine. p. 754.
