Dr. Akther currently serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Business Administration (SoBA) and Additional Director (QA), IQAC,  East Delta University. He also worked as a Visiting Scholar at the same school for a year. Prior to that he was as an Associate Professor of Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurial Sciences (FBES), USTC. He also worked as a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Finance and Banking at the School of Business (SoB), UCTC for over 6.5 years.  

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 [Scopus Q1; ABDC(A)], International Review of Economics & Finance [Scopus Q1; ABDC(A), ABS(2)] International Journal of Finance and Economics [Scopus Q1; ABS(3)], Borsa Istanbul Review (Scopus Q1; Cite Score: 7.6), Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research (Scopus Q1; Cite Score: 6.4), Computational Economics (Scopus Q1; Cite Score: 4.9), Financial Innovation (Scopus Q1; Cite Score: 6.9), International Journal of Law and Management (Scopus Q1; Cite Score:2.9), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (Scopus Q1; Cite Score:2.9), International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (Scopus Q1; Cite Score:2.9); Journal of Banking Regulation [Scopus Q2; ABS(2)], Australian Economic Papers(Scopus Q2; Cite Score: 2.8), Studies in Economics and Finance (Scopus Q2; Cite Score: 3.3), Managerial Finance(Scopus Q2; Cite Score: 2.3),  Psychological Science and Education (Scopus Q3; Cite Score:1.5) & Quantitative Finance and Economics (Scopus Q2; 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.