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Dr.
Saleemul Huq Dr.
Saleemul Huq is the Chairman
of
the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies which is the major non-government
research and policy institute working on environment and development
related issues in Bangladesh. He is a leading environmental planner
at national and international level having worked for numerous
international agencies on global environmental issues. He has
advised national government planners and international funding
agencies on environment and climate change programmes.Currently
with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),
as director of its climate change programme. He
worked on Advisory
position to the World Bank and
Asian
Development Bank
on
Adaptation to Climate Change. |
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Dr.
Atiq Rahman Dr. Rahman is a leading Environment and Development Specialist with wide national, international and global experience and involvement in sustainable development, environment and resource management, poverty and equity, disaster management, peoples participation, global governance and modelling evaluation issues. He is also working on capacity building, optimal capacity utilization, methodological and institutional development in developing countries and communities. Besides being the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) which has emerged as the leading think tank in Bangladesh and also in South Asia on Resource Management, Environment and Sustainable Development issues. Dr. Rahman is an author and consultant on environment, sustainable development issues and on global planning. He is also the member of International Advisory Committee of the Secretary General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) on Sustainable Development and was elected Vice Chairman of working group on Environment, Trade and Investment (GETI) of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic & Social Policy (CEESP). It is an outcome of World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) 2002. He was the organizer of the Pugwash input in WSSD at Johannesburg. |
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Mr.
Mujibur Rahman Mr.
Mujibur Rahman has over 35 years of experience. He has served in top
management and administrative jobs both with the Government as well
as with international agencies (UNHCR/UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF). Mr.
Mujibur Rahman has also wide experience in private sector projects
conducted by BCAS during the previous years and he has been working
in the project of industrial pollution in Kaliakoir, where a cluster
of twelve industries are causing pollution problems in the vast
area. An
Officer of Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) Cadre, Mr.
Rahman served in various high civil service positions, including his
service as Director-General Department of Social Welfare. As DG
Social Welfare, he has been associated with both formulation and
execution of policies and projects pertaining to the Social Welfare
sector of the government involving children, women and low
income-group people. He was also Joint Secretary, External Relations
Division, Cabinet Division. In the latter two capacities, he has
travelled widely with inside and outside the country. He also worked as Secretary, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) for four years. He
worked as Management Consultant/National Advisor in the MDU Project
of the Ministry of Health and FP. A very relevant work in the
management sector has been his involvement as consultant for
management improvement in the Family Planning and Primary Health
Care Sector. |
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Mr.
Liaquat Ali Mr. Liaquat Ali has vast experience in project identification, planning, designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation including survey/investigation/studies on fisheries resources, aquaculture and fisheries related aspects, socio-economics, fish consumption, fish processing and marketing, stock assessment, fish catch assessment and production estimate. He is also an expert on policy formulation and institutional development, formulation and implementation of fisheries laws and regulations. He has also reviewed fisheries sectoral activities including policy, legal and institutional issues, open water fisheries (inland and marine) management and development, stock enhancement and floodplain stocking, Study of the livelihood and socio-economic condition of fishing community. He has experience on aquaculture (fish and coastal shrimp culture) management and sustainable development, extension and training, impact assessment of different types of aquaculture and fisheries management practices and manmade and natural intervention on fish population, fish production, socio-economics, fish consumption, ecology and environment, biodiversity etc. He has prepared scientific papers, status paper/report and review paper/report on different aspects of fish and fisheries and related activities. He has experience to work with Remote Sensing Technology for resource assessment and monitoring. He has participated in a number of national, regional and international seminar, symposium, workshop and conference. As head of organization (Director General, DoF) and National Project Director of a number of donor funded large projects he has proven experience on administrative and financial aspects including maintenance, coordination and liaison with different national, bilateral and international organizations. |
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Dr.
M. Eusuf Dr. Eusuf is a leading personality in energy science and technology with wide national, international and global experience. Since 1964 he has been associated with research on and development & dissemination of energy technologies in Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR). He has got 79 research and review papers published in national and international journals, 12 patents on energy technologies granted by Government of Bangladesh and 5 technologies leased out for commercial exploitation. Under his guidance, renewable energy technologies such as efficient stoves, low cost biogas plants, solar water heaters, solar cookers and biogas-based electricity generators have been developed and these technologies are now being disseminated by BCSIR in the rural areas. Under his supervision over 5000 rural youths (male & female) were trained on the above technologies.Dr. Eusuf has wide experience in assessment of energy utilization and natural resource management practices in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. As team leader, he was involved in the solar PV project in Narsingdi (completed in June 1998) implemented by Rural Electrification Board. He has been a consultant on energy projects to GOB, IDRC, FAO, UNDDSMS, World Bank, UNDP, ADB, REB and some NGOs. He served the Dhaka University as a part-time teacher in the Bio-chemistry Deptt. from 1966 to 1977 and worked as Humboldt-Fellow at the Gottingen University, Germany, 1970-72. He had been the Editor of the research journal (Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research) from 1966 to 1986.As a Senior Fellow and Head of Energy Division in Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Dr. Eusuf is currently engaged in the design preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of energy, environment and training related projects. |
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Dr.
Moinul Islam Sharif Dr.
Moinul Islam Sharif has experience in environmental assessment and
evaluation, guidelines development, industrial consultancy,
feasibility studies, designing installing chemical plants of various
nature over the last 25 years. He is now actively persuing projects
on awareness building on environmental issues with the private
sector directly and through Business and Industry Chambers in the
country specially for the leather and textile sectors as well as
NGOs on socio-environmental issues. He is also currently involved in
training programmes on Environment Management System and Cleaner
Production Technology for Pharmaceutical and Textile dyeing and
finishing industries. He is also involved in Energy Studies in terms
of Power and Gas sectors for international clients and research
groups. He was the team leader in preparing the country report on
hazardous waste management for World Health Organization (WHO). He was a team member on the study “Cost of Electricity Outages in Bangladesh” completed in the year 2000 funded by World Bank. He is currently involved in projects with the Business Chambers and Bangladesh Garments Manufactures and Exports Association to assess and suggest improvements in environmental practices, social standards and occupational health and safety. He is also currently the Coordinator on behalf of BCAS on the project “Improved Performance of Bangladesh’s Energy Sector”, the prime consultant of which is PA Consulting USA and the project is being funded by USAID. |
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Mr.
Khandaker Mainuddin Mr. Khandaker Mainuddin has experience as researcher/consultant in conducting feasibility studies, monitoring and evaluation studies, impact assessment, social assessment, business and economic forecasts, macroeconomic analysis, financial analysis, appraisal and planning of different sectoral projects and programmes including those of energy, environment, health, fisheries, education, infrastructure, agriculture, micro-enterprise, industries for 25 years. His experience also involve planning, designing and implementing large scale sample surveys, processing and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data generated though surveys and PRA techniques. He has been coordinator and lead consultant of study teams representing multi-disciplinary fields for a number of studies. |
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Mozaharul
Alam Have
working experiences with multidisciplinary team of expert in the field of
climate change, environment, natural resource management and GIS. Have working
experiences of use of General Circulation Model (GCM) and MIKE11 (hydrodynamics
model) outputs of which have been used for GIS modelling to predict present and
future level of inundation due to climate change and sea level rise. Have
working experience of use of COMAP and IPCC methodology for assessing greenhouse
gas emission from energy, agriculture and forestry sectors with their potential
mitigation options. Involved in a number of studies where different models were used for vulnerability assessment, assessment of greenhouse gas emission and mitigating GHG from agriculture and forestry sector. Noteworthy studies were “Bangladesh Climate Change Country Study under the US Climate Change Studies Programme”, “Assessment of Vulnerability of Coastal Areas to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise; A Pilot Study in Bangladesh” and “Asia Least-Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) study, Bangladesh”. |
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Dwijendra
Lal Mallick Mr.
Mallick
has
been working as a Research Fellow at Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
(BCAS), an independent research and policy institute in Dhaka
for more than 10 years. He has been trained in Sociology and gathered wide
ranging experiences of conducting social research, (using both quantitative and
qualitative methods and tools including PRA and RRA), monitoring and evaluation
of project activities, conducting Social Impact Assessment
(SIA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and information
dissemination and documentation. He
was involved in many of the socio-economic and environmental studies and
projects undertaken by BCAS in collaboration with a number of national and
international research and academic institutes. The major institutes, he worked
with, included: the Environment Centre of University of Leeds, Anthropology
Department of University of Durham, CEMARE of University of Portsmouth and
University of South Bank from UK, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) of
USA, Anthropology Department of Dhaka University
and Integrated Research and Development (IARD). |
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Sarder Shafiqul Alam Research Fellow, BCAS Sarder Shafiqul Alam is a Research Fellow of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and has over 15 years experience of research and monitoring. He supervised and conducted a number of projects both research and monitoring in various aspects including water, fisheries, forestry, socio-economic, rural and urban environment, and development works in Bangladesh. His particular responsibilities were Consumer Survey, Demonstration, Motivation, Promotional Activities, SHS Installation and Demonstration, Preparation of Training Manual, Training of Technicians and Customers, Tariff Structure, Monitoring the Performance of SHS including customer satisfaction, Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology. |
