Mainus Sultan is a Bangladeshi author and academic. He was born in 1956 in Fulbari, Sylhet.[1] He completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Dhaka.[2] He married Hollyn Green.[3] Their daughter, Kajori Sultan, was born in 1994.[4] He and Green worked in Laos from 1995 through 1999 with Quaker Service Laos, a branch of the American Friends Service Committee.[5] Sultan's research there became the basis for his doctoral thesis, entitled "The process of collaborative capacity building: The journey towards achieving self-management for local INGO staff in the Lao PDR". He submitted it to the University of Massachusetts in May 2003 and received the degree of Doctor of Education.[2]
Sultan was a visiting professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[6] In 2014, he and his wife moved to Sierra Leone,[3] where she became the head of public affairs for the US embassy in Freetown.[7] Sultan received a Bangla Academy Award, the highest literary award of Bangladesh, in 2015 for his travel writing.[8]
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