Bangladesh, May 12 -- Few educators in Bangladesh's post-independence history have married vision with institution-building as durably as Professor Dr. Alimullah Miyan.

This week marks the ninth anniversary of his passing - not merely a moment for remembrance, but an occasion to measure how far-sighted his ideas have proven.

The founder of the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) was, in the truest sense, an architect of minds at a time when Bangladesh most needed one.

Professor Miyan's intellectual formation occurred against a sweeping global transformation - one that would permanently alter the foundations of economic power.

Through most of the twentieth century, national wealth and competitive ad...