Khan Ahmed Sayeed Murshid

In the late 1970s, Murshid joined Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies as a researcher.^[6]

In 2010, Murshid edited Challenges in Boosting International Migration from Bangladesh which was written by Kazi Iqbal and Mohammad Yunus and published by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.^[9]

Murshid retired in 2012 from Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He has worked at Asian Development Bank based in Cambodia^[10] and United Nations Development Programme.^[6]

Murshid was appointed the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies on 9 April 2015.^[6] He co-wrote a book with Muhammad Yunus called Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh and published in 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization.^[11]

Dr Binayak Sen replaced Murshid on 1 April 2021 as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.^[12] Under Murshid the institute had climbed to 94 on the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index of the University of Pennsylvania.^[13] He edited two books, Securing Food For All in Bangladesh and Agricultural Transformation and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Essays in Memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain, which were published by The University Press Limited in 2021.^[14][15]

Murshid wrote The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.^[16] In 2024, he described the national budget of Bangladesh as a fictitious budget.^[17]

Murshid is married to Shameem Subrana, singer.^[18] His son, Shabab Murshid, died at the age of 15 while studying at the International School of Phnom Penh and he founded the Shabab Murshid Foundation in his memory.^[18] His elder sister is Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid, senior lecturer of King's College London.^[5][19] His other sister Sharmeen Murshid is a member of the advisory council of the Bangladesh interim government.^[5][20] His brother Kumar Murshid is a politician in the United Kingdom who was a member of the Labour Party.^[5][21]