Professor Md. Nasimul Bari was born in a respectable Muslim family on 17 June, 1962 in Laxmipur District of Bangladesh. He passed SSC and HSC examinations under Dhaka Board in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He obtained B.Sc.Ag.(Hons.) degree in 1987 from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Later he obtained M.Sc. (Ag) in Agronomy from the same university in 1992. He also obtained M.Sc. in Environmental Technology from the University of London, and DIC from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K. in 1995.
His fields of specialization are Crop Production, Weed Science, Environmental science, and Farming Systems Research. He has so far published 40 research articles in both national and international journals. Moreover, he published over 20 articles in workshops, symposiums, books, periodicals, etc.
Professor Bari joined the Gazipur Agricultural University (the then Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture) as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy in 1996. In 2010 he became Professor and has been serving in the same Department till now. In addition, he has been serving as Dean, Faculty of Agriculture since June, 2025