Md. Dabirul Islam was born on 16 January 1960 in the village Sikandarpur of Baniyachong Upazila (Sub-district) under Habiganj district. He obtained Master’s Degree in history from the University of Dhaka. He got another Master’s Degree in Public Health (Maternal and Child Health) from Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology, Dhaka. After passing the Bangladesh Civil Service Examination (Superior Civil Service) in 1984, he started his career as an Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate in Bangladesh Administration cadre. As an officer of the administrative cadre, he worked in the field administration in different districts for more than two decades in various capacity and positions including Upazila Magistrate, Upazila Nirbari Officer, and Additional Deputy Commissioner etc. He was entrusted with the work of criminal justice and development works for long time and as thus he had the opportunities to work with different types and classes of people irrespective of gender, color, religion and creed. As a result he had nice experience of working and managing multi class people of root and mid-level people of the country. Moreover, he serves in various ministries of the government of Bangladesh for a long time as Deputy Secretary, Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary where he was entrusted with the government policy formulation and implementation and monitoring of development projects of the government. After working in different parts of the country and in the secretariat for a long 34 years, he retired from government service in 2019. During his professional life, he visited many countries like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan, South Korea, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, England, Turkey as a government representative and participated in various international training, workshop and seminars. He was one of the founding members and made a remarkable contribution to the establishment of ASED.