Dr. Akther has been working as an Associate Professor at the School of Business Administration (SoBA), East Delta University since October 2025. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the same school for a year. Prior to that he worked as an Associate Professor of Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurial Sciences (FBES), USTC. He also worked at the School of Business (SoB), UCTC for over 6 years as a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Finance and Banking. 

He is a trilingual (Bengali, English and Russian)-multidisciplinary educator and researcher. He has over 15 years of learning, teaching and research experience from Russia, Malaysia, the UK, and Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D (Educational Psychology) in 2014 from the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (MSUPE), a leading research university in Russia and Eastern Europe. He also completed MSc (Islamic Finance) from INCEIF (AACSB Accredited), Malaysia. 

He has presented over 30 papers in international conferences and workshops across the world. He has already published 15 papers in WoS/Scopus indexed international journals. Notable journals where his papers have been published are: Economic Modelling [ABDC(A)], International Journal of Finance and Economics [ABS(3)],  Borsa Istanbul Review (Cite Score: 7.6), Computational Economics (4.9), Financial Innovation (Cite Score: 6.9), Australian Economic Papers(Cite Score: 2.8), Studies in Economics and Finance (Cite Score: 3.3), Managerial Finance(Cite Score: 2.3), International Journal of Law and Management (Cite Score:2.9), and Psychological Science and Education (Cite Score:1.5), Journal of International Trade &Economic Development (Cite Score:2.9), International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (Cite Score:2.9), & Quantitative Finance and Economics (JIF: 3.2).

He loves learning new language, reading books, and travelling. He has visited the following countries: Russia, UK, Malaysia, Belarus, Egypt, Lithuania, Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, & Saudi Arabia.