Dr. Amit Chakma achieved 10th President

London, July 11, 2009 (UJI): The World Chakma Indigenous Buddhist Community, congratulating and wishing for happy, healthy and prosperous future life ahead to Dr. Amit Chakma for his achievement such a prestigious post as President of the University of Western Ontario. His named was also under 40 among Canada’s Top 40 in 1998.

He officially took his office on July 1 as a 10th President and begins his first term in the office on July 2, 2009. He will serve a five year term. It is recorded in the “World Chakma History”.

Dr. Chakma is now 50. He is belonging from Chakma Indigenous Buddhist Community of the South-East Asia, mostly living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Jummaland) in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. The Chakmas are faith by Buddhist and originally belong from Sakya Clan (Lord Buddha clan, who founded Buddhism).

Dr. Chakma was served as Vice-President (Academic& Provost) of the University of Waterloo; Dean and Vice-President (Research) of the University of Regina; and Professor (Chemical & Petroleum Engineering) at the University of Calgary.

He is a graduate (Diploma Engineering) from the Algerian Petroleum Institute in1982; Master (Applied Science) in 1984 and PhD (Chemical Engineering) in 1987 from the University of British Columbia.