Ferdous Arfina Osman is a professor and former chairperson of the department of public administration at the University of Dhaka.
[3] Osman completed her bachelor's degree and masters in public administration at the University of Dhaka in 1992 and 1993 respectively.
[4] Osman completed her postdoc research at the Johns Hopkins University in public policy in 2015.
[4] She is a director of the Centre for Advanced Research in Social Sciences.
[6] Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, Osman was appointed a member of the Local Government Reform Commission.