Background
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky was born in 1970 in one of Bangladesh"s oldest landed feudal aristocratic families. He is the son of Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky, the founding treasurer of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the former Minister of State for Commerce (proti-montri) of Bangladesh. He is the great-grandson of Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, the co-founder of the Assam-Bengal Muslim League during the British rule and one of the founders of the University of Dhaka.