MSc Management of NGOs: Comment from a former student

Mr M. Shameem Siddiqi from Bangladesh was one of the students on the MSc in 1999-2000 and here. Shameem reflects on his time at LSE. The following article describes his time here

Over the past nine years Shameem has worked in various development-related fields and in different local and international NGOs like Action Aid, PIACT and JHCCP. “I first heard of the LSE course in 1998”, he said. “I selected the LSE course as I thought it would help in analysing the internal organisational and environmental issues for NGOs, identifying the causes of poverty and finding ways to reduce it.” Shameem applied but did not succeed in getting a scholarship. Later he learned of the Chevening scholarship Scheme, and approached the British High Commission in Dhaka about it. He went through the selection process and was awarded the scholarship

“I was very excited about being in the cosmopolitan environment of LSE and the fact that I would be able to see the European system in terms of politics, education and other fields, and have the opportunity to learn from students from other countries who were on the course.” 

Shameem has only recently returned to Bangladesh and is now working for Development Links Support and as a consultant for his former employer Action Aid. When asked what lasting benefits his time in the UK will have Shameem replied “The LSE course has given me the opportunity to shift my attention away from operational work, so that I can concentrate more on studies, debates, theories and ideas. It has also helped expand my professional network and to contribute my own ideas in seminars, debates and workshops.”  

(reprinted from British Council Quarterly Bangladesh, No 18, Oct-Dec 2000)

Last updated 23 October 2001

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