BUET VC Khaleda Ekram dies

professor Khaleda Ekram
professor Khaleda Ekram

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) vice-chancellor professor Khaleda Ekram breathed her last at a hospital in Bangkok early Tuesday at the age of 66.

Her personal assistant Kamrul Hassan confirmed this to Prothom Alo on Tuesday morning.

BUET public communication official Shah Alam said decision on bringing back her body to Dhaka has not been taken as yet.

Khaleda Ekram was the first woman VC of the engineering university. She was appointed to the post in September, 2014.


The architecture engineering department professor had been involved in the teaching profession for more than 40 years.

She was born in Dhaka on 6 September 1950.