Profile

Khondokar Jilhajj

Lecturer (Banking & Insurance)
jilhajj.dba@cityuniversity.ac.bd
+8801576438452 & +8801792295050
Faculty and Department Affiliation

Faculty of Business and Economics
Department of Business Administration

Degrees and Universities Attended

MBA  (Banking),  Department  of  Banking  and  Insurance,  Faculty  of  Business  Studies,  University  of  Dhaka.  

BBA  (Banking  and  Insurance),  Department  of  Banking  and  Insurance,  Faculty  of  Business  Studies,  University  of  Dhaka.  

Short Introduction

Khondokar Jilhajj is a lecturer in the Department of Business Administration at City University, Bangladesh. He holds both an MBA (CGPA 3.79/4.00) and a BBA (CGPA 3.71/4.00) from the Department of Banking and Insurance, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka. With a strong academic background, he excelled in both his HSC and SSC, achieving a GPA of 5.00/5.00 from Dhaka Commerce College and Mirpur Mafid E-AM High School, respectively. His professional experience includes serving as an Adjunct Lecturer at Dhaka International University, where he taught Financial and Managerial Accounting. In addition, he had worked as a research associate on multiple projects funded by prominent organizations such as the SME Foundation, FES Bangladesh, and the University Grants Commission (UGC) Bangladesh. He also completed an internship from the Department of Off-Site Supervision at Bangladesh Bank. Khondokar has published three research papers, all indexed in Scopus and ABDC, with classifications in Q1 and Q3 quartiles. His academic excellence has been recognized through the Bangladesh Government Honours General Scholarship for his BBA results and Talent Pool Category Scholarship in the HSC Examination, where he ranked 16th among male students in the Business Studies group. His research focuses on key areas such as SMEs, empirical asset pricing, and bank performance. He is proficient in using statistical software like STATA and SPSS and has expertise in panel, cross-sectional, and time-series data analysis.

Teaching experience

Lecturer  (Banking  &  Insurance),  Department  of  Business  Administration,  City  University,  Bangladesh,  September  1,  2024  to  Present.

Adjunct  Lecturer,  Department  of  Computer  Science  and  Engineering,  Dhaka  International  University,  February  13,  2024  to  September  20,  2024.  

Research Interest

SMEs,  Empirical  asset  pricing  and  Bank  performance.

Publications

Khan,  S.  N.,  Khan,  T.,  &  Jilhajj,  K.  (2024).  Investigating  the  role  of  banks  in  promoting  women-owned  micro  and  small  businesses:  Empirical  evidence  from  an  emerging  economy.  Business  Strategy  &  Development,  7(3),  e418.  https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.418    (impact  factor:  4.8)  Wiley,  2024.

Jilhajj,  K.  (2023).  Forecasting  Lending  Interest  Rate  and  Deposit  Interest  Rate  of  Bangladesh  Using  the  Autoregressive  Integrated  Moving  Average  Model.  International  Journal  of  Economics  and  Financial  Issues,  13(3),  169–177.  https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.14321  (impact  factor:  1.067)  Econjournals,  2023.

Jilhajj,  K.  (2023).  Profit  Efficiency  of  Bangladeshi  Banks:  A  Stochastic  Frontier  Approach.  International  Journal  of  Economics  and  Financial  Issues,  13(4),  73–83.  https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.14420.  (impact  factor:  1.067)  Econjournals,  2023.  

Research  Experience
Research  Associate  “Investigating  the  Role  of  Banks  in  Promoting  Micro  Businesses  Owned  by  Women  Entrepreneurs:  Empirical  Evidence  from  Bangladesh”  funded  by  University  Grants  Commission  (UGC)  Bangladesh.

Research  Associate  “Informal  SMEs  of  Bangladesh:  Formalization  Challenges  and  Way  Forward”  jointly  funded  by  Small  and  Medium  Enterprise  Foundation  (SMEF)  Bangladesh  and  Friedrich-Ebert-  Stiftung  (FES)  Bangladesh.

Academic  Achievements  
Bangladesh  Government  Honours  General  Scholarship  2019  based  on  the  Bachelor  of  Business  Administration  (BBA)  result.

Mustafizur  Rahman  Khan  –  Saleha  Khanom  Memorial  Scholarship,  2019-2020  for  getting  the  highest  CGPA  among  the  boys  in  Bachelor  of  Business  Administration  (BBA)  program.

1st  in  Savar  Upazila  under  General  Category  Scholarship  in  SSC  Examination  in  2013  (Business  Studies  group).
16th  in  Dhaka  Board  under  Talent  Pool  Category  Scholarship  in  HSC  Examination  in  2015  (Business  Studies  group).