Pritum Kumar Saha

• Pritum Kumar Saha is a development professional with more than 08 years’ experience in monitoring & evaluation, evidence capturing & reporting, database development & management, project’s planning & implementation, networking & communication. He led many successful projects’ planning, monitoring, reporting and knowledge sharing parts. He worked directly and/or along with different ministries, municipal authorities and NGOs. He is a planning (URP) graduate with post-graduation degree in disaster & human security management.

A.J.M. Shafiqul Islam

• A.J.M. Shafiqul Islam has more than 16 years of involvement in implementing integrated Agricultural and off-farm intervention in Rural Livelihood and food security Program to improve livelihoods of poor and vulnerable men and women. He has also experience in open water fisheries management and bio-diversity monitoring. He is a fisheries graduate with post-graduation degree in Aquaculture and Management.

Tanzina Nazia

• Tanzina Nazia is a gender and environment specialist, who has vast experience in research. She has a graduation and post-graduation degree in Anthropology.

Nazmunnessa Mahtab

• Nazmunnessa Mahtab is a gender and governace specialist. She is a political science graduate with public administration post-graduation. She has also done her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Delhi and a Post-Doctoral in women in administration from George Washington University.

Magnus Mayeen Ahmed

• Magnus Mayeen Ahmed was a part of the CRD team, who has been now working as a Communication Officer at the International Centre for Climate Change & Development. He has 2.5 years of work experience in the development sector, working as a Communications professional. He has worked for esteemed organizations such as ActionAid Bangladesh and has done consultancy work for Plan International Bangladesh, Visual Communication Ltd, University Press Limited, and Bandhu Social Welfare Society.

Md. Masum Talukder

• Md. Masum Talukder had 18 years of working experience in the area of research, consultancy and management training.

Md Akram Hossain

• Mr AKram is an energetic and proactive Physical Handicapped Person (PwD- Person with disability) with 3 years of professional experience in humanitarian and development sector. Significant span of his professional time was spent around community engagement, grassroots advocacy and capacity building of PwD. Since 2018, he had been working with Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) to help disability inclusion in the development activities, rehabilitation of PwD , capacity building of PwD, job placement and socioeconomic inclusion of PwD in Bangladesh.

Tuba Ahmad

• Tuba Ahmad is an enthusiastic explorer and learner in the research and development sector and wants to pursue an extraordinary career in this field with diverse experiences. She worked with CRD as Research Assistant during August 2020 to May 2021. She has supported proposal drafting, data collection tool development, conducting field research, analyzing research findings, and drafting reports in several assignments. She contributed to assignments with MSH, ICCO Cooperation, UN Women & Ella Alliance.

Shah Riazur Rahman

• Mr. Shah Riazur Rahman has more than 17 years experience in project management, specifically in WASH sector within different development organizations/INGOs. He worked for number of international development organizations including CARE Bangladesh,

Shushil Sarkar, PhD

• Dr. Sushil has 19 years of progressively responsible experience with more than 10 years at a supervisory level in the management and coordination of the Learning and Organizational Development activities for 3 peacekeeping missions (UNMIS-Sudan, UNMISS-South Sudan & UNMIL-Liberia), BRAC International, UNDP and UNOPS.

Mohammad Nuruzzaman

• Mr. Nuruzzaman has 20 years of professional experience on development projects in national/international organizations in the field of TVET/ Skills Development and Decent Employment for the youth and workers of the disadvantaged section of society, women and persons with disabilities in particular, and other underprivileged persons, such as persons with low education level, ethnic minorities, etc.

Ipshita Habib

• Ms. Habib is a seasoned development professional with specialized skills in inclusive programme design, result framework and monitoring measurement plan design, stakeholder mobilization, advocacy and policy dialogue, and institutional resource mobilization for impact-driven funded projects (i.e. USAID, FCDO, Australian Aid, EU).

Md. Mostafizur Rahman, PhD

• Dr. Rahman was awarded his Doctoral degree from Jawahar Nehru University (New Delhi, India) in 2020. Prior to that he completed his MA in TESL from the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India .

Dr. Johny Augustine

• Dr. Augustine is a Professor of Social Work at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA. . He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work on the effects of individual, family, and community factors on adult resilience from University of Denver, USA.

Dr. Aninda Nishat Moitry

• Dr. Moitry is a medical doctor by training and presently teaches at the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka. Prior, she worked as Research Trainee at International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDRR, B).

Md. Rafiqul Islam Faruki

• Md. Rafiqul Islam Faruki is an agriculturalist by training. He completed M.S. in Agriculture (Crop Botany) from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Md. Shahadat Hossain, PhD

• Mr. Hossain has more than 33 years of experience as a Civil Servant, he has held various administrative roles such as Joint Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Senior Assistant Secretary in multiple Ministries, Divisions, and Departments, including Public Administration, Health & Family Welfare, Textiles, Chittagong Hill Tracks Affairs, Religious Affairs, Commerce, ICT Division, National Election Commission, Directorate of Consumer Rights, and BBS.

Md. Mizanur Rahman

• By training Mr. Mizanur is agriculturist who has about 33 years of experience as a development practitioner. He has exclusively worked on livelihood, food security, value chain development, market linkages, climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR), nutrition, rehabilitation of climate refugees and vulnerable communities of the climate induced disaster-prone area of Bangladesh.

Mamunur Rahman

• Mr. Rahman has over 20 years of working experience in enterprise development, with a special focus on green industries in the last 10 years. He has wide experience in SME development in Bangladesh.

Dr. Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder

• Dr. Sikder completed his PhD in Sociology from Monash University, Australia and he completed his MA in Development Studies from University of Leeds. He is currently teaching in North South University in the Department of Political Science & Sociology since May 2022. Before that he was an assistant professor in Daffodil International University Bangladesh in the Department of Development Studies.

Dr. Delwar Hussain

• Dr. Delwar Hussain is a public health, planning- management, monitoring and evaluation and program development specialist with formal training in epidemiology, management, medical science, and is highly experienced in result reporting of projects working in fragile countries.