Muhammad Samad was born in a remote village in 1956 in the Jamalpur District of Bangladesh. He earned his Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) with honors and master’s degrees in Social Welfare, mostly known as Social Work, from the Institute of Social Welfare and Research (ISWR), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He completed his PhD on the participation of the rural poor in development programs of government and NGOs in Bangladesh. Dr. Muhammad Samad has worked as a visiting professor at Winona State University (WSU), Minnesota, USA twice in 2005 and 2009 respectively. He has worked as a Fellow of Katherine A. Kendall Institute of International Social Work Education, CSWE, USA in 2009. He has been serving as the President of Bangladesh Council for Social Work Education (BCSWE) since 2012. He has been elected as Board Member of Asian and Pacific Social Work Education (APASWE) for the term of 2013-17. Dr. Muhammad Samad served as the Vice Chancellor, University of Information Technology & Sciences (UITS), Bangladesh. He is a renowned professor and teaching for thirty-seven years and also former Director at the Institute of Social Welfare & Research, University of Dhaka. He has done extensive research on the rural poor, indigenous peoples and the underprivileged classes in Bangladesh. He has thirty articles published in national and international journals. A well-known social scientist Dr. Muhammad Samad has authored and edited more than ten books in the field of social science and development.