| Office: | Adviser for Fisheries and Livestock |
| Term Start: | 9 August 2024 |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Adviser |
| 1Namedata: | Muhammad Yunus |
| Predecessor: | Abdur Rahman |
| Office1: | Adviser to the Interim Government |
| Term Start1: | 8 August 2024 |
| President1: | Mohammed Shahabuddin |
| Predecessor1: | Post established |
| Birth Place: | Chattogram, Bangladesh |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Education: | Department of Economics, Chittagong University |
| Spouse: | Farhad Mazhar[1] |
Farida Akhtar (born 1953) is an adviser to the 2024 Bangladesh interim government and the executive director of UBINEG (Policy Research on Development Options).[2] She is also an advisor to the current interim government in its Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.[3]
Farida Akhtar was born in 1953 in Harla village of Chandanaish Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh.[4] She studied Economics at Chittagong University. She is married to writer, columnist, and poet Farhad Mazhar.[5]