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. He worked as a DGM at the SME Foundation from November 2017 to July 2019. Being a senior-level executive of SME Foundation, he had to take many innovative initiatives, including SME cluster development, policy advocacy for SMEs, and conducting research. He also had the opportunity to work closely with the Ministry of Industries to develop the last two industry policies (IP 2016 and IP 2010) and SME Policy 2019 in particular. Being head of the policy advocacy wing, he successfully incorporated both issues of SMEs and SME Foundation in the 7th Five Year Plan  He completed his MA in Gender and Development from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. He also completed his MA in Gender and Women Studies from University of Dhaka. Previously, he completed BSc in Economics from University of Jahangirnagar.

He is currently working as the CEO at ELLA as of October 2019.  He worked as a Research Affiliate at D-Lab, MIT, USA where he improved Ella pad working with MIT design center,