Other Professional Activities

Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE): Ecology, Economy and Society

SANDEE (South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics) – Faculty at the Summer School on Environment and Resource Economics (SSERE) since 2003 – held at AIT, Bangkok/Sri Nakharinwirot University, Bangkok.

Academy for Planning and Development, Government of Bangladesh – Guest lecturer in Economics, Environmental Economics, Project Design, Evaluation, etc. since 2002

Asian Center for Development, Director, since 2012

Faculty Advisor and SANDEE Fellow, SANDEE, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economists, 2003- to date

British Council    Attend the British Council conference on 21st Century Universities – Higher Education in South Asia, held in Dubai on 29-30 November 2013 and gave a lecture on Higher Education and the New Normal.

ADB   TA 8084: Supporting Implementation of Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP), as an international expert on Institutional Capacity Building with AFC International GmbH, Germany (2013-14) – intermittent 45 days.

GIZ   Green Climate Fund Readiness Support Program as Team Leader, with AFC International GmbH, Germany (2014-15).

IPAC Trainer, Regular resource person at Training program on “Economics of Conservation” for Forest and Fisheries Officials

ADB Financial and Economic Expert, Assessing the Economics of Waste Management (Feb-Aug 2010).

Member, Syndicate, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology 2008- 2010

Independent Director, WZPDCO, West Zone Power Development Company, Bangladesh 2008-  2010

Utsho Bangladesh, Treasurer, an NGO working for child rights with children of the slum in Bangladesh

BICF-IFC, Dhaka, Task Team Leader – Small Grants and Academic Partnership Programs.

 Government of Bangladesh

Member of National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA) Sub-Committee on Food Security, Livelihood, Gender and Local Governance 2005

Member Secretary of the National Expert Team on evaluating the impact of Magurchhara gas field blowup.

Executive Committee Member, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics

National Team Leader of the Expert Group on drafting the National Conservation Policy of the Government of Bangladesh

Consultancies/Research Projects

UNDP

Member of the team in the area of Energy, Environment and Disaster Management for its assessment of development assistance (May-Dec 2010)

SAVE THE CHILDREN

Development of Country Paper for Save the Children, UK, 2008

Impact Assessment of the Post Sidr Early Recovery Program in Barguna District, a project funded by DFID and implemented by Save the Children, UK. (2008)

IUCN BANGLADESH

Project Design Expert: Transboundary Water Management Project between IUCN Bangladesh and IUCN India.

Project Design for Tanguar Haor Development Project for Sustainable Management – 2007

Socio-economic study of Tanguar Haor Project area for designing appropriate management strategy (2008)

Project design team member on Transboundary Water Management Project (2008)

Economics of Nature-Based Tourism – a study for NISHORGO project funded by USAID (2008)

BMZ-GTZ

BMZ Country Evaluation Team Member – responsible for energy and environment sector (2006)

Institute of Water Modeling, Dhaka

Economist and Financial Expert – Dhaka WASA Master Plan development team (2013-2014).

Economist/Financial Management Specialist – IWM project on Khulna City Adaptation for Climate Change in the water sector – funded by ADB (2009)

Resource Economist – Decision Support System Project, A IWM research project (2009)

Resource Economists – in the project to study feasibility of economic tools for keeping the Dhaka Watershed clean.  A  WB-IWM project (2006)

Resource Economist – on Estimating and forecasting Demand for Water of Dhaka City – A project of Dhaka WASA in 2005-2006

 World Bank

Member of the team of experts on Public Expenditure Review in the Water and Sanitation Sector, 2005, The World Bank.

Involved as an economist for assessment of public expenditure on Environment, 2005

Working on a research project to evaluate the Irrigation expenditure in terms of economic, environment and poverty reducing impacts

Research Surveys

National Survey Team Leader on the Gender Budget Project, Funded by the Norwegian and the Netherlands Embassy in Dhaka. A project of the IDESS, of North South University.

Climate Change, non-market valuation

The South Asian Network for Development and Environment Economics, Nepal.

Climate and Energy

Cost of adaptation, IIED

Adapting to Climate Change, ADB

Asian Development Bank on Tariff Reform and Intersectoral Allocation of Natural Gas in Bangladesh. 2011

With BIDS on as a team member on “Evaluation of SHS project estimate demand for solar power in Bangladesh”, July-Nov 2012

With Dr. Rumi Shammin on Understanding the benefits of Solar power in Rural Bangladesh.

Water

With IUCN on Transboundary Water Projects between Bangladesh and India, 2011-12 – study on Chars in Bangladesh and India.

Water sector and climate change for Water modeling institute

Bangladesh Team Leader of the study on the Impact of the flood embankment project in Meghna-Dhonogoda Flood Control and Irrigation Project. –  funded the Institute of Environment Studies, Amsterdam.

Sundarbans and ecosystem services, Arsenic and Water institutions, South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes

Other

Shrimp Trading, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh – two case studies, Funded by the Catalyst and sponsored by the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Dhaka.

Community Services

Reviewer- Journal of Environment and Development Economics, Rice Journal

Expert Member, International Team of Experts on Conservation of Tigers, Ministry of Wildlife, People’s Republic of China. 2007.

Expert Member, Panel of experts of the Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) to draft the declaration for Asia and Pacific Countries on the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002.

Member, World Commission on Environment and Social Policy – a Geneva Based IUCN Special Committee. 2000 to date

Member, Research Advisory Panel, South Asian Association for Development and Environmental Economics, SANDEE – a SAARC based organization funded by WB. 2001- to date.

Member Secretary – CPD’s Panel of Experts on the Committee on Environment to prepare a Pre-Election Policy Brief  – 2001

Member, National Committee on Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Bangladesh.  2001

PM Trust Evaluation Survey

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Green Sylhet Award 2019

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