[2] Murshid was born in 1951 to Bengali family of Khans from the village of Nasirabad in Nabinagar, Comilla district.
[6] He co-wrote a book with Muhammad Yunus called Rice prices and growth, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh and published in 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
[11] Dr Binayak Sen replaced Murshid on 1 April 2021 as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.
[14][15] Murshid wrote The Odds Revisited: Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.
[18] His elder sister is Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid, senior lecturer of King's College London.