Birth—
Where—Sylhet, Bangladesh
Education—Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich and Yale Universities
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Rahman was born in rural Bangladesh in the region of Sylhet and has said that his mother tongue was Sylheti and not Bengali, although he understands some Bengali. He moved to London as a baby after the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation. His family were squatters in a derelict building before being moved to a council estate. His father was a bus conductor and waiter and his mother a seamstress. Rahman attended a comprehensive school. In an interview with Guernica, he remarked that he “grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy.” Rahman took a first class honors degree from Balliol College, Oxford, with further studies at the Maximilianeum and Munich, Cambridge and Yale Universities. He worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs in New York before practicing as a corporate lawyer and then as an international human rights lawyer focusing on corruption. He has also worked as an anti-corruption activist for Transparency International.
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