- Chapter VI · Geography

01 · Bangladesh
Foundations · 1997-1999BSS and MSS in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. Full-time work at Anando, a peace and development non-profit; Professor Abdullah Al Amin served as Executive Director. This period framed an early conviction that business exists in service of communities.
02 · Saudi Arabia
1999-2014 · DammamMarketing Officer at WESCOSA (multiple Quality Awards) and HR & Training Development Lead at EIC - building a training function for 2,000+ staff and supporting EIC's 2013 Tadawul IPO. Later returned through Bradford training programmes at Riyadh Cables and MEBCO.


03 · Bahrain
2014-present · ManamaChair & Co-Founder of Leicester Bahrain (LBCO) and Strategic Advisor of Bradford Consultancy, USA - leading engagements across Europe, the Far East and the GCC in training, project delivery, BPR and market research.
04 · United Kingdom
2018-present · LondonPhD (2024), lectureships in finance, marketing and global business, and mentoring under the UK Government's Help to Grow: Management programme - where scholarship, teaching and counsel now meet on the same table.

- Bahrain . additional professional engagement
Selected professional interactions in Bahrain across corporate, academic and civic contexts.

Corporate discussion, Bahrain

Dialogue between academia, industry and public leadership, Bahrain, 2015
- Wider international engagement
Beyond his principal career locations, Dr Alam's international client and professional relationships have extended across Europe, East Asia and the Middle East through consultancy, executive education, business development and collaborative professional engagements - including Italy, Korea and China.

AlBaraka Summit, London

Bank of Scotland event

Business event - French Ambassador & press

India - peace & non-violence engagement, Lucknow, 1999
Community, peace and development engagement in South Asia during the earliest career period - the intellectual origin for a lifelong pattern of international professional relationships.