BRAC, one of the largest NGOs in the world and the sponsor of BRAC University, has been active in administering innovative and effective development operations as well as research on development since 1972. The need for an exclusive institute equipped with recent innovations and practices in Public Policy and Management of the contemporary world for the future leaders of Bangladesh became obvious in the 21st century.
BRAC University established the then "Centre for Governance Studies" in 2005 (as of July 2007 the ‘Institute of Governance Studies), as a pioneering institute in Bangladesh on Governance, offering post-graduate degree and undertaking research in areas of governance and development.
Dr Akbar Ali Khan was the Institute’s first Director, 2005-2006. Mr. Manzoor Hasan OBE, who was involved with the establishment of IGS and was its first International Director, took over the position of the Director in November 2006.
A brief chronology of IGS:
