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Farzeen Ferdous Alam\xa0is the Founding President of OGGRO, a development organization based in Bangladesh. He started OGGRO while in high school and subsequently\xa0dropped out and continued his studies privately in order to dedicate time to OGGRO during its infancy.\xa0

His risk paid off when OGGRO won the prestigious Youth Solidarity Fund\xa0award of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC) in 2009. The following year he was honored by MTV Staying Alive Foundation UK for \u201coutstanding achievement in\xa0HIV/AIDs awareness\u201d. Farzeen has developed numerous social business models in order to transform OGGRO from a fund-dependent organization to a self-sufficient one.\xa0

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A\xa0graduate in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Farzeen is also the Chairman of Ferdous Biotech Pvt. Ltd, which uses tissue culture to produce various agricultural products\xa0for local and foreign markets.