Mobarak Hossain is reading for the DPhil in Social Policy as a Barnett-Nuffield scholar. His research focuses on the inequality effect of institutional reforms in the education sector of developing countries using large-scale assessment and household survey data.

Before coming to Oxford, Mobarak worked with the research team of UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) based in Paris and pursued a master's degree at Sciences Po Paris focusing on development and economic policy,  funded by Eiffel and Kuwait-Sciences Po programme scholarships.