Siddiq Osmani is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom and a Visiting Professor at BRAC University, Dhaka. He obtained Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics and then worked at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka and at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki before joining the University of Ulster. He has published widely on issues related to poverty, inequality, hunger, famine, nutrition, and development problems in general and his books include Economic Inequality and Group Welfare and Nutrition and Poverty. He is currently serving as Special Adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on matters related to economic rights. Professor Osmani joined BU on September 1, 2002.