Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (Bengali: কাজী খলীকুজ্জমান আহমদ; born c. 1943) is a Bangladeshi economist and development thinker and activist.

[5][6][7] Ahmad was born in c. 1943 to a Bengali Muslim Qazi family in Sylhet District, Assam Province.

His father, Mumtazul Muhaddithin Moulana Qazi Muhammad Mufazzal Hussain of Karimganj, was an Islamic scholar who served as a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1946 to 1952,[8] and later as a college professor.

He left BIDS in 1987 and then worked as the chairman (chief executive) of Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP), which he helped, set up in 1980.

[12][13][14] He represented Bangladesh in the UN Open Working Group (OWG)[15] on Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He was also, until January 2015, a member of the executive board of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)[16] of the Kyoto Protocol, representing non-Annex-1 countries.