Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, known as Sajeeb Wazed Joy, is a Bangladeshi businessman and politician.
23 Facts About Sajeeb Wazed
2.
Sajeeb Wazed is a member of the Awami League and serves as Advisor to the Government of Bangladesh on Information and Communication Technology.
3.
Sajeeb Wazed's parents were nuclear scientist Dr M A Wazed Miah and Sheikh Hasina Wazed.
4.
Sajeeb Wazed attended boarding school in India, including St Joseph's College in Nainital and Kodaikanal International School in Palani Hills, Tamil Nadu.
5.
Sajeeb Wazed studied computer science at the University of Bangalore; then transferred to The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States, where he graduated with a BSc in computer engineering.
6.
Subsequently, Sajeeb Wazed attended Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he completed his Masters in Public Administration.
7.
Sajeeb Wazed was settled in the United States for over two decades.
8.
Sajeeb Wazed married Kristine Ann Overmire on 26 October 2002.
9.
Since 2009, Sajeeb Wazed has divided his time between Bangladesh and the United States.
10.
Sajeeb Wazed is the President of the US-based firm Wazed Consulting Inc Wazed is regarded as the mastermind of the Digital Bangladesh initiative and promoting the Vision 2021 manifesto of the Awami League.
11.
Sajeeb Wazed was listed by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders.
12.
Sajeeb Wazed is a lobbyist and columnist on behalf of the Bangladeshi government.
13.
Sajeeb Wazed has pledged to transform Bangladesh's IT industry into the country's largest export sector, but critics say he has achieved little towards that end.
14.
Sajeeb Wazed has accused the Editor of The Daily Star, the country's largest circulated English daily, of sedition; and a pro-opposition journalist of attempted murder.
15.
Sajeeb Wazed's efforts brought fruition, and the military backed extra constitutional government was compelled to release Sheikh Hasina from prison, following which she has led two consecutive governments having won the national elections in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
16.
Sajeeb Wazed first appeared on the Bangladeshi political scene in 2004, when he made a widely publicized visit to Bangladesh.
17.
On 25 February 2009, Sajeeb Wazed officially joined the Awami League as a primary member of the Rangpur district unit of the party.
18.
Sajeeb Wazed has been active in promoting the Digital Bangladesh scheme of the Government of Bangladesh.
19.
In 2011, Sajeeb Wazed talk about Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for his leadership of Grameen Bank, claiming high levels of "fraud and impropriety" in the use of Norwegian government funds at the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization.
20.
In 2015, Sajeeb Wazed defended the Awami League government's refusal to publicly condemn the murder of bloggers and publishers by Islamic extremists.
21.
Sajeeb Wazed opined that the government was walking a fine line to avoid alienating the country's deeply conservative clergy.
22.
In 2016, Sajeeb Wazed accused Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, of treason and demanded his imprisonment for publishing reports in 2007 on the basis of intelligence sources, accusing his mother Sheikh Hasina of corruption.
23.
Three United Nations rapporteurs in a joint letter on December 22,2022, accused Sajeeb Wazed of sharing misinformation against them while they pointed out gross human rights abuse in Bangladesh under the Sheikh Hasina regime.