Khurshida Begum Sayeed was a former Commissioner of the Information Commission of Bangladesh, with the rank of a Secretary of the Government.[1] [2] She is a professor of government and politics at Jahangirnagar University.
Sayeed was born on 1 January 1953 in Rajbari District, East Pakistan, Pakistan.[3] She graduated from Shiddeshwari Girls High School and Holy Cross Girls' High School in 1967 and 1969.[3] She completed her bachelor's degree and Masters in Political Science from University of Dhaka in 1973 and 1975 respectively.[3] She completed her PhD in 1985 from Heidelberg University.[3] Her thesis was on the Farakka Barrage.[3]
Sayeed joined the Family Development Services and Research in 1986 as a researcher.[3] From 1986 to 1991, she was an assistant professor at the department of government and politics at Jahangirnagar University.[3]
Sayeed became an associate professor in 1991 and a full professor in 1999.[3]
In 2013, Sayeed was appointed a member of the Board of Advisors of the Ministry of Textiles and Jute.[3] She was a member of the Bangladesh delegation to the 13th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2014.[3] She was appointed Commissioner of the Information Commission on 28 September 2014.[4] [5] She served under chief commissioner Ambassador Mohammed Farooq and Professor Md. Golam Rahman.[4] [6]
Sayeed sat at hearing of the Information Commission and found against government officers and fined them monetarily.[7] She served with fellow commissioner, Nepal Chandra Sarker.[8] In February 2016, she fined the officer in charge of Bhatara Police Station for failing to disclose requested information to a member of the public in the prescribed timeframe.[9] She said that a culture of transparency was needed for the right to information act to be implemented.[10]
Sayeed is a contributing author of Banglapedia.[11]