Professor Muhammad Mahboob Ali, coordinator, department of entrepreneurship economics, Dhaka School of Economics, has been honored for his outstanding contribution of creating new entrepreneurs. The daily global nation awarded prof Ali recently for his continuing efforts to inspire youth to become entrepreneurs. READ: Women entrepreneurs ‘struggling to survive’ in aftermath of pandemic Prof Ali has been serving as the head of entrepreneurial economics department. He completed postdoctoral (Entrepreneurship, Thailand), PhD (Macroeconomics), MPhil (Financial Economics), MCom (India), MCA, MSS, BSS (Honours-Economics). Prof Ali is the only person in Bangladesh who did post Doctorate in Entrepreneurial Management. Expressing his feelings to UNB, Prof Ali said that he tried to create Entrepreneurial Education. “I first introduced Bachelor of Entrepreneurial Economics education, Post graduate diploma in Enterprise Development, Master of Entrepreneurship Economics in Dhaka School of Economics,” he said. READ: How Bangladesh Bank is encouraging more women to become entrepreneurs He also works as the first coordinator of undergraduate programmes in a private university. Prof Ali received an award from Global Entrepreneurship Grid from India for spreading Entrepreneurship education in Bangladesh.