Dr Nur-E-Elahi,a renowned farming system agronomist of the country promoted Director Administration and Common Service of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) on Thursday , 20 July 2006. Prior to the new position, he was the Chief Scientific Officer and Head, Rice Farming Systems Division of BRRI.

Dr Elahi joined BRRI as Scientific Officer in 1974 and discharged his duties devotedly, holding different positions for the last 33 years. He contributed lot to the food grain production of the country by involving himself directly with the development rice-based farming system technologies.

Dr Elahi was born in 1952 at the village of Jathrasidhii under Sadar upazila Feni district. He obtained his BSc.Ag(Hons) and MScAg degrees in Agronomy from the Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1971 and 1972, respectively. He did his MS degree in 1980 from the University of The Philippines at Los Banos and PhD degree in 1991 from Cornell University, USA. He has 33 publications published in different journals at home and abroad, 5 books and more than 100 research articles.As a maize affiliated scientist of The CIMMYT, he contributed to development and promotion hybrid maize in Bangladesh.

During his 33 years carrier, he visited The Philippines, India, China, Thailand, Nepal USA, Srilanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam.

Dr Elahi is married, and has one daughter.