Mr Masood Rezvi: The Chairman and Managing Trustee

Supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, through their Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Masood did his M.Sc .Agriculture, from Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa under the guidance of Prof B. N. Singh, and won the University Gold Medal for his batch. His thesis Genetical studies in semi-dwarf indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) under different environments is available for reference in the library of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

He was immediately selected as Agriculture Officer at the Erstwhile New Bank of India. He served ENBI and Punjab National Bank in different management grades and at different places for seventeen years. During his banking career, he closely interacted with the farmers, rural artisans, glass workers of Firozabad, carpet workers of Bhadohi, and embroidery workers of Lucknow. He passed the Certificated Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (part I) examination and is a life member of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai. He has had his training in Rural Development Projects at the College of Agricultural Banking, Pune. During this training he worked on a project for Sericulture (silk growing) farmers in the Karnataka State in association with the State Bank of Mysore. He is also a trained Internal Quality Auditor, trained by Det Norske Veritas and the Bureau of Indian Standards.He coordinated the ISO Certification of the Gorakhpur Regional Office of Punjab National Bank, as the Dy. Management Representative. He also helped in the quality drive at PNB as trainer facilitator and motivator for ISO Certification at Regional Offices at Faizabad and Varanasi, the Zonal Office at Lucknow and many branch offices.  

After taking voluntary retirement from his banking career, he was nominated a member of the State Level Committee for Monitoring and Implementation of Prime Minister's 15 Point Programme and Multisectoral Development Plan for Minority Concentration Districts by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. On the exhortation of his close friend Late Mr. Jawed Murtaza advocate, and at the behest of its founder, Hon'ble Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain, he joined the Unity Technical Institute Society, and is a member of its GB. He did his MBA (Finance) and M.Com and passed the UGC-NET examination. He also served at the Unity Degree College as the Administrator and OSD. He is a member of the Commerce and Management Research Association, Lucknow and a dawami member of Anjuman-e-Wazifa-e-Sadat-wa-Momineen, Aligarh.

He has authored the book "Tightening Noose of Poverty" and compiled the book "Growth with Justice". He has also written many articles and papers in English, Hindi and Urdu, which have been published by different journals and newspapers. He has presented many papers and chaired technical sessions in many seminars.His next book "Inflation" is also on the anvil.