Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, Director, BU-IED was one of the three featured speakers on October 05, 2006 at the seminar of the Bangladesh Development Researchers Forum seminar series on "Bangladesh in the Next Five Years". The Research Forum works under the sponsorship of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). Dr Ahmed's topic was Improving Quality and Governance in Education. Dr. M. Shahabuddin, Director General of BIDS chaired the seminar. Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, fouder of Viswa Shaitya Kendro, was the special guest.