A. Qayyum Khan joined the Mukti  Bahini in the early days of the liberation war when he was an university student. He was commissioned during liberation war and fought in Sector 7 as a second lieutenant. After leaving the Bangladesh Army in 1981, he went to the US and completed his doctorate in Finance from Georgia State University. He taught in several American universities and returned to Bangladesh in the late nineties. His research and academic writings have appeared in the Financial  Review, International Journal of Finance, and the Journal of the International Academy of Case Studies others. He currently lives and works in Dhaka