Quazi Shahabuddin
Director General
Dr. Quazi Shahabuddin obtained his M.A. in Economics from Dhaka University in 1967, M.Sc. at the London School of Economics in 1975, and Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada in 1982. Prior to joining BIDS as a Senior Research Fellow in 1991, he served as Deputy Chief in the Planning Commis-sion, Government of Bangladesh and as Consultant-Economist in the Master Plan Organisation under the Ministry of Water Resources. He has undertaken extensive research and consultancy work in the fields of growth performance and risk management in agriculture, management of water resources, food policy analysis and chronic poverty in Bangladesh. He has published extensively in various national and international economic journals including Oxford Economic Papers, The Journal of Development Studies, etc. Also, he has contributed to various edited volumes. He co-edited a book on “The 1998 Floods and Beyond – Towards Comprehensive Food Security in Bangladesh” published jointly by the University Press Limited and the International Food Policy Research Institute. He was the Executive Editor of the BIDS quarterly journal, The Bangladesh Development Studies, during 1992-2002 period. He is currently a member of the Policy Analysis and Advisory Network for South Asia (PAANSA) under the South Asia Initiative, IFPRI.
Agriculture and Rural Development Division
Md Asaduzzaman
Research Director
Dr. M. Asaduzzaman joined the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the precursor of the BIDS, in 1969 as Staff Economist. He holds his current post since end 1997. Key capabilities of Dr. M. Asaduzzaman encompass several areas of professional and institutional activities. He has been educated in the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex, England. He has a research experience in various fields. Generally they fall in the area of agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. Within this broad area, his past research includes one of the first rigorous studies on technological change in agriculture (Ph.D. thesis), institutional and management issues in rural infrastructure development (one of the first rigorous such analysis of WFP-aided programs anywhere in the world), environmental issues such as coastal environmental management, climate change, compre-hensive evaluation of water resource development, comparative evaluation of poverty eradication programs under alternative institutional frameworks, critical review of long-term historical record of growth performance of Bangladesh agriculture, energy model-ing, particularly related to climate change issues, local level planning, local government resource mobilization, construction of I-O model for Bangladesh and agriculture trade and globalization and modeling of free trade arrangements.
Dr. Asaduzzaman’s current research interests include modeling of Bangladesh trade under WTO and free trade rules, rural energy, energy development and its governance with particular reference to the power sector, and private investment in schooling.
Dr. Asaduzzaman has served in various national and international committees including the high powered committee on WTO matters under the Ministry of Commerce, and also as Chair and earlier member of the Consultative Group of Experts for the Non-Annex 1 countries of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Rushidan Islam Rahman
Research Director
Rushidan Islam Rahman received her M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, England in 1981 and received her Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1991. She has worked in a number of major research projects of BIDS, including an evaluation of the impact of Grameen Bank and BRAC, studies on small scale irrigation projects, assessment of agricultural growth performance and its distributional impact, women in poverty and linkages between employment and poverty in Bangladesh. During the last ten years, she has been involved in policy advising through membership of various committees and participation in policy dialogues of Government, NGOs and Development Partners. Currently she is serving as the editor of the Research Report Series of BIDS, and as the Division Chief of Agriculture and Rural Development.
She has served as a consultant of ADB during 2004-2005. She has been a resource person of the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific during 1995 and 1997-1998. She has also served as a consultant of the World Bank, UN-ESCAP, ILO, UNDP and IFPRI.
She has published a large number of articles in national and international journals. Her important publications include “Poverty Alleviation and Em-powerment through Microfinance: Two Decades of Experience” Research Monograph, No. 20, BIDS, 2000; Savings and Farm Investment in Bangladesh, (co-author: M.K. Mujeri), Focus Study Series No. 11, CIRDAP, 2000; Agriculture and Rural Develop-ment in Bangladesh (in Bengali, with Dr. Mahabub Hossain), UPL, 2003. She has edited a volume on “Performance of the Bangladesh Economy”, BIDS, 2003. In addition, she has contributed to several edited volumes including ‘Independent Review of Bangladesh’s Development’, 2000 and 2004 of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and “Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in Microenterprises and Public Employment Schemes” edited by Nurul Islam, The Howarth Press Inc, New York, 2006.
Her research interests include education, poverty, unemployment and Labor market, rural non-farm activities, gender inequity in the labor market and microfinance.
Bimal Kumar Shaha
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Bimal Kumar Saha obtained an M.A. in Economics from Dhaka University in 1974, an M. Phil. From the Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Rajshahi University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from Calcutta University in 1995. He has worked extensively in the fields of agrarian structure, technological change, land reform and development. He has a number of publications, including a book on comparative agrarian development in Bangladesh and West Bengal. He has also been a Visiting Teacher of Economics at BRAC University, Dhaka and at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (HIS) in National University, Dhaka.
Current research interests of Dr. Saha include political economy of agrarian question, surplus utilization and capital formation in agriculture.
Md. Mizanur Rahman
Research Fellow
Mr. Mizanur Rahman obtained an M.Sc. in Statistics from Dhaka University in 1973, and in 1981 he received an M. Phil in Economics from Cambridge University, U.K. His areas of research interest include mathematical economics and statistics, econometrics, and internal migration.
S.M. Zahedul Islam Chowdhury
Research Associate
S.M.Zahedul Islam Chowdhury completed B. Sc. (Hons.) and M. Sc. in Economics from Jahangirnagar University. He joined BIDS as Research Associate in April 2004.His area of interest is Agriculture and Rural Development, Women’s empowerment ,Environment and Health issues etc.He has been pursuing his Ph.D in Turkey.
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General Economics Division
Omar Haider Chowdhury
Research Director
Dr. Omar Haider Chowdhury obtained an M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1968 and a second M.A. from the University of Manchester, U.K. in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London in 1980. He joined the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) as a Staff Economist in 1970, served as the executive editor of the “Bangladesh Development Studies”, a quarterly journal of BIDS during 1986-89 and as a Course Director, Macro economics, in Advanced Training Program (ATP), conducted by BIDS (an M. Phil. Level training offered to local and foreign students) during 1986-91. He has publications in the areas of economic development in general and nutrition and food policy, macroeco-nomic management, social welfare and implications of improvements in social and physical infrastructure on the development of Bangladesh in particular and has presented papers in many national and international seminars. He has worked as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Rome, World Bank (WB), Washington D.C., Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Thailand, Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC), Malaysia, etc.He went to Ghana on an FAO mission as an economist in September 1989 to evaluate the Food Distribution System of the country.
K.A.S. Murshid
Research Director
Dr. K.A.S. Murshid was awarded a Ph.D. in 1985 by the Faculty of Politics and Economics, Cambridge University for his thesis on food policy. He has retained an interest in this area while at the same time branching out into a number of other research areas, including infrastructure and irrigation, informal and rural credit markets, foodgrain markets, food security and poverty, human resources development and rural energy. He has published extensively in both Bangladeshi and international journals, including the Bangladesh Development Studies, the European Journal of Human Development, World Development, and the Journal of Development Studies. He has also to his credit numerous other publications in the form of research reports, monographs and contributions to various edited volumes. Dr. Murshid combines extensive research experience with familiarity with a wide range of development settings in addition to Bangladesh, including sub-Saharan Africa, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Cambodia. His current areas of research interest include new institutional economics (applications to markets and development institutions), infrastructure, energy and poverty; agriculture, food policy and rural finance.
Binayak Sen
Senior Research Fellow
Binayak Sen obtained an M.Sc. in economics from Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow in 1982 with distinction, specializing in history of economic thought, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of India and South Asian Economies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1985, with development economics as the chosen area of specialization. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Research Administration Department of the World Bank, Washington, D.C. during June-August 1992. He joined BIDS in September 1986, and has been involved in a number of research projects since then, especially in the areas of poverty, income inequality and human development. From June 1993 to December 1994, he worked as Long-term Consultant in the Operations Evaluation Department (OED), and later during January-September 1995, in the Poverty and Human Resources Division, Policy Research Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. During 1998-2000.
Binayak Sen has been involved in policy-advising, taking part in a number of national committees, which include his role as the Member of the Macroeconomic Consultative Committee to the Ministry of Finance. He was also the Member of the International Steering Committee of the South Asia Network of Economic Institutes (SANEI) supported by the Global Development Network (GDN) and the World Bank during this period. Apart from research and active policy-advising Binayak was also involved in part-time teaching as the Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, formed under the National University, Dhaka, during 1998-2000, where he taught three post-graduate (M.Phil) level courses, namely, “Theories of Growth and Distribution”, “History of Economic Thought in Bangladesh”, and “Discourses on Method”. He also gave one full academic year course on “Development Issues” as Part-Time Teacher in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Dhaka University, Dhaka, during January-December 1999.
Binayak has done consulting for a number of national agencies such as the Bangladesh Bank and the Planning Commission, and for international agencies such as World Bank, ADB, UNDP, and WHO.
He has a number of publications in national and international academic journals, including Bangladesh Develop-ment Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, Economic and Political Weekly, and Asian Development Review. He has co-authored a book a titled: Social Dimensions of Adjustment. World Bank Experience, 1980-93, written with William Branson and Carl Jayarajah, and published by the World Bank in 1996. He has also contributed to several edited volumes including Bangladesh: Promise and Performance published from the Zed Press, London and the University Press Ltd., Dhaka (2000); State, Market and Development. Essays in Honour of Rehman Sobhan published from the University Press Ltd., Dhaka and the Sage Publications, Delhi (1996); Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study published from the Sage Publications, Delhi (1995); History of Bangladesh (Economic History) published from the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (1992); Privatization Trends and Experiences in South Asia published from the Macmillan India Ltd., (1991); Debt Default to the Development Finance Institutions: The Crisis of State-sponsored Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh published from the University Press Ltd., Dhaka (1991); Modernization at Bay: Structure and Change in Bangladesh published from the University Press Ltd., Dhaka (1991); The Decade of Stagnation: the State of the Bangladesh Economy in the 1980s published from the University Press Ltd.., Dhaka (1991).
His research interests relate to the economics of poverty and income distribution, anti-poverty policy, social development, privatization and financial sector reforms, informal trade, ethical issues of development (with focus on “social justice” and “civic empowerment”), and colonial history (with focus on “history’s lessons for development”).
Chowdhury Anwaruzzaman
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Chowdhury Anwaruzzaman obtained an M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1970. The same year he joined the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics as Assistant Staff Economist. He completed an M.A. in economics and all the requirements of Ph.D. except dissertation from Cornell University, USA in 1975, and received a Ph.D. in economics from the same University in 1994. His areas of interest are monetary, marco and international economics.
Kazi Ali Toufique
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Kazi Ali Toufique did his B.S.S. and M.S.S. in economics in 1982 and 1983, respectively from Dhaka University. He obtained an M.A. from Fordham University in 1987, M.Phil. in 1990, and Ph.D. in 1996, both at the University of Cambridge. He joined BIDS in 1989 as Research Associate. His main areas of research interest are institutional economics, livelihoods analysis, natural resource management, environment and agricultural economics. He has contributed to many seminars and conferences both at home and abroad and has also published in reputable inter-national journals such as World Development, Land Economics, and the Indian Economic Journal.
Dilip Kumar Roy
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Dilip Kumar Roy obtained Master’s Degree from Rajshahi University and later received Post-Graduate Diploma from Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, Poland. He obtained second Masters Degree from UFSIA, University of Antwerp, Belgium and subsequently Ph.D.Degree in Applied Economics from the same University. His Dissertation aroused interest to the Nobel Laureate, Professor Tinbergen. Dr. Roy was a Visiting Researcher in Asian Development Bank Institute, and then Visiting Scholar in George Washington University, Washington D.C. He has a number of published articles in international and national academic journals including Industry and Development, Bangladesh Development Studies, etc. in the areas of international trade, industrial economics and em-ployment. He has also a number of published Research Reports in IFPRI and BIDS. He co-authored several chapters of the book titled, “Economic Reforms and Trade Performance in South Asia”, published by BIDS and UPL in 2004. He has also co-authored a chapter, titled “Impact of the 1998 Flood on Household Food Security”, of the other book, “The 1998 Floods and beyond”, published by IFPRI and UPL, 2004. He worked as a short-term consultant in World Bank, DFID, Asian Development Bank and EU. His current area of research interests relates to international trade, governance and employment. His work on “Governance, Competitiveness and Economic Growth: The Challenges for Bangladesh” is published as Discussion Paper 53 in the website of Asian Development Bank Institute.
Asadul Islam
Research Fellow
Asadul Islam joined as a Research Associate in the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in July 2001. He completed his M.S.S from the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. He left for University of Saskatchewan, Canada, for his Masters in Economics and completed his masters in 2003. His area of interest includes International trade, open economy macroeconomics, labor economics, theoretical and applied econometrics.
Wajid Hasan Shah
Research Associate
Wajid Hasan Shah joined BIDS in July of 2001. He has a Masters in Economics from the University of Missouri – Columbia, and a Bachelor's from Truman State University with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He completed an evening MBA in Development Management from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) under University of Dhaka during his tenure at BIDS. Prior to joining BIDS, he had taught Economics part-time at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and was also Technical Editor for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)'s Food Management Research Support Project (FMRSP) in Bangladesh. He prepared the Microfinance II report for the World Bank Office Dhaka and also revised and edited the report on the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Program (BINP) as well as reviewed the role & scope of gender in past and present World Bank activities in Bangladesh for formulating a future course of action while working as a Short-term Consultant for their Social Sector Team. He had also worked on Foreign Direct Investment and Supplier's Credit for the Economics Team of the World Bank Office Dhaka. He had worked as a teaching assistant during his stay abroad. While at BIDS, he worked on the TRACE project, and also participated in the EU Country Strategy Evaluation for Bangladesh. He also carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Small Grants Program for the World Bank in Bangladesh. His areas of research interest include foreign investment, the stock market, NGOs and health economics.
Mohammad Mainul Hoque
Research Associate
Mohammad Mainul Hoque is working as Research Associate at BIDS since March 28, 2006. He completed his M.S.S in Economics in 2005 from University of Dhaka. His area of interest includes fiscal and monetary economics, trade policies and tools of restrictions, economics of exhaustible resources, information economics and healthcare demand.
Md. Nazmul Hoque
Research Associate
Md. Nazmul Hoque joined BIDS as Research Associate in August, 2007. He completed his M.S.S (2003) in Economics in 2005 from University of Dhaka. His areas of research interest include macroeconomic policy issues, open economy macroeconomics, international economics, information economics, economics of nonrenewable resources, foreign investment and various microeconomic issues.
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Human Resources Development Division
Abu Ahmed Abdullah
Research Director
Mr. Abu Ahmed Abdullah obtained an M.A. in Economics from Dhaka University in 1965 and a second M.A. from Harvard University in 1970. He joined the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in 1966. He has served in several positions outside the country including that of a Visiting Scholar at the Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway in 1977-78, a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986-87, and short-term Visiting Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, in March 1992, he worked as Project Co-ordinator of the ILO/UNDP Project, “Labour Intensive Works Programme in Uganda”. Later in 1992 he also served as a member of a visiting World Food Programme Mission to Uganda. He was the Team Co-Leader of the UNDP project, “A Review of the Agricultural Sector in Bangladesh” (Dec. 1987-March 1989). He has a number of publications in national and international journals. His current research interests are the political economy of the agrarian question, agricultural price policy, rural development, and social development.
Rita Afsar
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Rita Afsar has been working in the areas of migration, urbanization, urban poverty and gender issues for about two decades. Both her Ph.D. and Master's dissertations were based on rural-urban migration. She was honored by Pi Gamma Mu honor society for her outstanding academic performance and elected as a member of the International Union of Scientific Studies on Population (IUSSP).
She has worked as consultant to ADB, Ford Foundation, SIDA, ILO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, ESCAP, WHO and the World Bank. She was a visiting scholar to IRRI, Manila and University of Western Australia.
Mahmudul Alam
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Mahmudul Alam obtained B.A. (Honours in Economics) from Dhaka University in 1968, M.Sc. in Economics from the Islamabad University in 1968, M. Sc. In economics from the Islamabad University (now Quaid-e-Azam University), Pakistan, in 1969, a Diploma in Development Economics (DDE) from Cambridge University in 1975, and a D. Phil in Development Studies from IDS, Sussex University, U.K. in 1982.
His current research interests are socioeconomics of education, human resource development, training and institution-building.
Pratima Paul-Majumder
Senior Research Fellow
Pratima Paul-Majumder obtained an M.A in Economics from Dhaka University and Ph. D in 1978 from the Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, Poland. She was visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), Washington D.C, USA, from June 1995 to August 1995. She is a consultant of a project “Analysis of Women's Workload”, being conducted by the Policy Research Department (PRD), Institute for Development Policy Analysis and Advocacy (IDPAA), Proshika. She worked as project director of a number of nationally and inter-nationally funded research projects. She is currently a research fellow in the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). Her research interest comprises a wide range of subjects from sericulture industry to economics of slums and squatter settlements to garment and tea industry and gender issues. She has a number of publications of which Women, Work and Home, (BIDS, Dhaka), A study on Urban Poverty: Its Nature and Extent (Arani Publications, Dhaka), The Squatters of Dhaka City: Dynamism in the Life of Agargaon Squatters (UPL, Dhaka), Women's Budget (BNPS, Dhaka), and Garment Workers in Bangladesh (BIDS, Dhaka), Women’s Need for Transport and Communication Services (Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, GOB), and Widow and Old Age Pension Program for the Poor (BIDS, Dhaka). Currently she is working on International Labor Standards (ILS) and gender economics.
Serajul Islam Laskar
Research Fellow
After completing an M.A in Economics, S.I. Laskar joined BIDS in 1973. He obtained an M.A. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 1975 and an M.A. in economics from the University of Hawaii (USA) in 1990. He completed all coursework and comprehensives for Ph.D. programme except the dissertation (i.e. attained the level of ABD) in the University of Hawaii. Laskar worked with different international organizations such as UNDP, ADB, ICDDR, B and the European Commission. He also effectively participated in various international seminars/conferences at home and abroad and represented Bangladesh in various academic and intellectual forums. His research interests include Macroeconomic development, population and development, urbanization and Migration, human resources development (Education and Health), gender issues and development, environmental sustainability, role of ICT in development.
Anwara Begum
Research Fellow
An honours graduate from Lady Brabourne College, Dr. Anwara Begum obtained an M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from Calcutta University. In 1989, she completed M.Phil. in Urban Systems and Planning from Dhaka University, and in 1995 obtained a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, UK under the Common-wealth Scholarship. Dr. Anwara is recipient of a number of prestigious awards and scholarships in India, and has worked as consultant for ESCAP, the World Bank, DFID, NORAD and UNICEF. She has published articles, research reports, books related to her areas of interest and participated in national and international seminars. Her publication “Destination Dhaka: Urban Migration-Expectations and Reality” attempts to probe and reconcile empirical evidence to inform the theoretical framework relevant for Third World Cities. She is an active researcher on socioeconomic ramifications of poverty and has a wide interest in development issues. She was involved in the Poverty Ranking of Villages in Northwest Bangladesh under the NFEP-2 project. Since 1991 she has conducted extensive surveys on the poor, especially the pavement dwellers and the slum dwellers. She has developed expertise in primary data collection, having conducted field-level surveys for 3,000 street dwellers, several hundred slum dwellers, informal sector service workers, formal sector garments workers through structured questionnaires and case studies. She has contributed as co-researcher and Editor for the study on “The Gender Imbalance of Growth of Export Oriented Manufacturing in Bangladesh” funded by The World Bank. This has now been published as a book by UPL in 2006. She has also worked as Consultant for Gender and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for “An Appraisal of Three Medium–Sized Local NGOs”, which was a Norad/SDC funded project. Her study fields are rural-to-urban migration, urban poverty, urbanization, human resource develop-ment, formal and informal industry workers’ socioeconomic conditions, housing and regeneration and deve-lopment of areas of dereliction within city centres and the problems of social and economic deprivation of urban and rural poor dwellers
S. M. Zulfiqar Ali
Research Fellow
Growth, Inequality and Poverty; Human and Social Development; Human Wellbeing; Applied Economics; Natural Resources Economics.
Mohammad Harunur Rashid Bhuyan
Research Associate
Mohammad Harunur Rashid Bhuyan joined BIDS as a Research Associate on First April 2004. He has completed Masters in Sociology from the New School University, New York, USA, and did his MSS and BSS (honors) in Sociology from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Mr. Bhuyan has been trained as a professional Ethnographer from the New School for Social Research. His present research interests include human well-being, poverty, good governance and accountability issues, agriculture, globalization, cultural diversity, and women empowerment.
Nehraz Mahmud
Research Associate
Nehraz obtained B.S.S Honors (2002) and M.S.S (2003) degrees in Anthropology from the University of Rajshahi. Joined BIDS on 3rd April 2004 as Research Associate. Areas of interest in research are health, gender issues, social inequality, corruption and injustice, rights and social movements, etc.
Mohammad Golam Nabi Mozumder
Research Associate
As Research Associate, Mohammad Golam Nabi Mozumder joined BIDS in August 2007. He obtained his BSS Honors and MSS in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. Major areas of research interests are socio-cultural change and adaptation, Religious Militancy, Social Inequality etc.
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Industry and Physical Infrastructure Division
Zaid Bakht
Research Director
Dr. Zaid Bakht obtained an M.Sc. in Economics from Islamabad (now Quaid-e-Azam) University, Pakistan, in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Cornell University, USA in 1977. He joined the Institute as Staff Economist in 1971. He has been involved in a number of kanor studies relating to rural industries, rural infrastructure, and fiscal, monetary, trade and industrial policies. His areas of current research interest include off-farm employment, small and cottage industries, trade and industrial policies, and regional cooperation. He is currently the Research Director of BIDS.
Mohammad Abdul Latif
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Latif obtained his M. A. in Economics from Dhaka University in 1974. He joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the same university in 1975. In the same year he joined BIDS as a Staff Demographer. He did his M.Sc. in Demography at the London School of Economics in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1985. His major research interests are industrial economics, rural infrastructure, and microcredit.
Abdul Hye Mondal
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Abdul Hye Mondal obtained M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1966 and Ph.D. in Industrial Economics from the Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw. He did his Postdoctoral studies at Harvard University during 1994-95. He worked as a consultant to the UNDP, UNCHR, USAID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Labor Organization, UNICEF, JBIC and ICIMOD. Among his current research interests are Labor economics, policy studies, social economics, human values, human rights and dignity, and industrial economics. He has completed a good number of research works published in the national and international journals and books.
K.M. Nabiul Islam
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. K. M. Nabiul Islam obtained Masters Degree from Dhaka University in 1970 and later received Post-graduate diploma in National Economic Planning from Warsaw (Poland) and training in Rural Research and Rural Policy from IDS of Sussex University, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK. The first of its kind in Bangladesh, his Ph.D. thesis was "The Impacts of Flooding and Methods of Assessments in Urban Areas of Bangladesh.” During his Ph.D. research, he developed some flood loss models to apply to benefit assessments to flood protections in Bangladesh. Dr. Islam joined BIDS in 1972, and has since been involved in a number of major studies relating to, among others, development of rural and small industries; development of large industries, with particular reference to technological capability; floods; famines; flood and water management; and impact evaluation of rural development and flood control, drainage and irrigation projects. Dr. Islam has a number of publications in national and international journals. He has two books on flood loss management: Flood Loss Potentials in Non-agricultural Sectors, Assessment Methods and Standard Loss Database for Bangladesh, 2005; and Impacts of Flood in Urban Bangladesh, Micro and Macro Level Analysis, 2006. Dr. Islam has also co-authored three books on Choice and Transfer of Technology in Large Industries in Bangladesh: Leather, Fertilizer and Machinery. He has con-tributed to Reconstruction after Disaster, Issues and Practices (Adenrele Awotona ed.), Ashgate and Sydney. He has also contributed to Floods, Volume 1 (D J Parker ed.), Routledge, London and New York, to mark the end of UN-International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)
Narayan Chandra Nath
Research Fellow
Dr. Narayan Chandra Nath obtained Bachelor (Honours) in Commerce in 1969 and Masters in Accounting in 1972 from Dhaka University. He did his Ph.D. in Industrial Economics at the Institute of National Economy, Baku, USSR in 1978. He worked as Visiting Fellow and did postdoctoral research work on inter-national trade at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, United Kingdom during 1993/94. Dr. Nath started his career as a lecturer in Dohar-Narayan-ganj Degree College in 1972. He joined the erstwhile National Foundation for Research on Human Resource Develop-ment in 1979 as Research Fellow, and acted as action Research Coordinator until 1982. Since then Dr. Nath has been working as a Research Fellow in the Industry and Physical Infrastructure Division of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. Over the years, he has carried out several research studies in the areas of industry, international trade, poverty, employment, human resources development, financial market and tourism. He has a number of research publications to his credit. He has made a number of presentations in the inter-national seminars and conferences on international trade, industry and poverty. He is a Fellow of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh.
Salma Chaudhuri Zohir
Research Fellow
Dr. Salma Chaudhuri Zohir obtained an M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1979. In 1981, she received a diploma in economics from the University of Colorado and received the honour of being cited as “Highly Distinguished” scholar. She received a second M.A. this time in Development Economics from the Center for Development Economics, Williams College in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK, in 1998, under the supervision of Prof. Diane Elson. She has vast experience in research on issues related to development economics with gender perspective in Bangladesh. She has worked extensively in the areas of employment, gender and development and industry in general and particularly on economic and social issues, and gender issues in industry including the readymade garment industry. She worked as a project director of several national and internationally funded projects and in projects funded by various donors including ILO, IDRC, EU, Oxfam, DFID and World Bank. She has presented papers in many national and international seminars/workshops. Her current areas of interest include gender issues in economic development, Labor economics, industrial economics, and the environment. She has a number of publications to her credit and has authored “Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Economic Social and Health Condition”, Research Monograph No. 18, 1996, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka. She was the resource person for the thematic report “Women’s Advancement and Rights”, on which the gender dimension of the PRSP is based.
Karimullah Bhuiyan
Research Fellow
Mr. Karimullah Bhuiyan obtained M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Dhaka in 1970 and joined BIDS in 1972. In 1976, he received a diploma in National Economic Planning from Poland, and in 1980 received a graduate degree in law from Dhaka University. He obtained his M.Sc. in Industrialization, Trade and Economic Policy from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1996. He completed a course on demography at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, Dhaka, and another course on Enterpreneurship at SIET, Hyderabad, India. Mr. Bhuiyan has been involved in a large number of studies in the field of rural industries, small and large industries, poverty alleviation, food policy and distribution, crop diversification, fish culture, irri-gation, water management and sick industries study in Bangladesh. His current research interests relate to industrial economics and trade, and economic policy. He has a number of publications to his credit.
M. Salimullah
Research Fellow
Dr. M. Salimullah received M.Sc. in industrialization, Trade and Economic Policy in 1996 and Ph. D. in Economics from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Uk in 1998. His doctoral research was a major study on Linkages, Trade and Technology in the Bangladesh Economy. He also obtgained M.Sc. in Statistics from Unaiversity of Dhaka in 1969. His main research interest includes modelling for development policy, trade, industra-lization, poverty measurement, rural infrastructure development, education and construction of forecasting model using extended input-output method.
Nazneen Ahmed
Research Fellow
Dr. Nazneen Ahmed joined BIDS as a Research Associate in July 1998. She was promoted as a Research Fellow of BIDS in August 2003. All throughout her student life she has proved her excellence and secured outstanding results in all the public examinations. After obtaining BSS (honours) and MSS in Economics from the University of Dhaka she worked as a Research Associate in the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka. She was awarded the British Chevenning Scholarship, which allowed her to study M.A. in development economics in the University of Sussex, UK. She received scholarship of International Food Policy Research Institute which allowed her to pursue doctoral study at University of Wageningen, The Netherlands she received her Ph.D. in April 2006.
Her current research interest is in the following research areas – trade and development, WTO issues, trade li-beralization, human capital and industrial growth, and regional cooperation.
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Population Studies Division
Simeen Mahmud
Research Director
Ms. Simeen Mahmud completed her M.A. in statistics at the University of Dhaka in 1974 and joined BIDS as Staff Demographer the same year. She obtained an M.Sc. in Medical Demo-graphy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1976. Her current research interests include women’s status and fertility, female labor use behavior, exploring the influence of development interventions on women’s lives, and more recently citizenship and participation.
Md. Abdul Mannan
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. M.A. Mannan obtained his M.A. in Economics from Dhaka University and joined BIDS as a Staff Demograper in 1974. He obtained an M.Sc in Demo-graphy from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in 1976 and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics in 1985. Dr. Mannan has worked extensively in the areas of with particular focus on health sector management and gender issues, utilization of public health facilities, productivity and costs of public health services, maternal and child health, and violence against women. He has undertaken research funded by inter-national and national agencies including UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, DFID and different ministries/agencies of the government of Bangladesh. He has a number of publications to his credit. His research interests include gender issues, health sector governance, poverty alleviation and human rights.
Sharifa Begum
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Sharifa Begum obtained her M.A. in Economics from Dhaka University, M.Sc. in Medical Demog-raphy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Ph.D. in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences. Her current areas of interest include health, population, poverty and gender.
Mohammed Sohail
Research Fellow
Mr. Sohail did his M.A. in Eco-nomics from Dhaka University in 1971 and joined BIDS as Staff Demo-grapher in 1973. Later he studied at the University of Michigan, USA where he completed a masters degree in Sociology in 1976. He has been involved in a number of population and health related studies. He has to his credit a number of published and unpublished research papers. His current areas of research interest include population studies, population and development linkages, human resource development and health related issues.
Kazi Jahid Hossain
Research Fellow
Kazi Jahid Hossain obtained B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1967 and 1968, respectively. He obtained an M.Sc. in Demography in 1977 from the London School of Economics. His areas of interest are population, health and education.
A.B.M. Shamsul Islam
Research Fellow
Mr. ABM Shamsul Islam obtained an M.Sc. in Statistics in 1969 from Dhaka University. Later Mr. Islam completed a post-graduate course in Economic Development and Planning in Italy in 1977/78. He is Research Fellow in the Population Studies Division of the Institute. His current areas of interests are aging population, food, international migration and environment.
Humayra Ahmed
Research Associate
Humayra Ahmed is working as Research Associate at BIDS since April 02, 2006. She has completed her B.S.S (Honors) in 2004 and M.S.S. in Economics in 2005 from University of Dhaka.Her area of research interest includes macroeconomic issues, trade policies, regional trade, sustainable development, health and population economics.
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