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.

In the recent past, she had worked as a professor at the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Dhaka from 2003 to 2013. She worked as a WID Consultant with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, GOB from January 1997 to September 2000 on the project "Strengthening the Management Capability of the Department of Women Affairs".

She worked with different donor agencies in Bangladesh namely- UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, ADB, SIDA, NORAD Netherlands, and SDC. The main work was the Appraisal/ Evaluation/ Impact Assessment of different NGOs funded by these agencies.