Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman, BIGD Executive Director held several meetings in July 2015 with number of distinguished personalities such as prominent academics and researchers regarding the research collaboration and other relevant issues of BIGD. Among others, Dr. Rahman had meeting with Dr. Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Vice Chairperson, BRAC; Ms. Ismat Shereen, Head, Relationship Management Office, BRACU; CIPS delegation from UK Ms. Paula Steele, Global Sector Manager, CIPS; and Mr. Howard Selden, International Development Consultant, MCIPS; USAID Acting Mission Director Paul Sabatine; Ms. Silmat Chisti and Dr. Hasan, Yale alums; Professor Siddiq Osmani; Dr. Atiur Rahman Governor, Bangladesh Bank; Prof David Hulme of the University of Manchester; and Mr. Nanda Dulal Saha, Director, Internal Audit, BRAC. Dr. Rahman also had a meeting with Inka Barrelt- Research Fellow, IDS and Jessica White of Nutrition team at BIGD. Dr. Rahman had also several skype meeting with Mr. Anup Roy, Associate Director, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) regarding ESRC-DFID proposal and Mr. Samar Varma of IDRC.
Dr. Rahman also met with Mr. Liaquat Ali Choudhury, Ambassador of High Commission of India regarding the flagship Research Report f BIGD titled ‘the State of Governance in Bangladesh”.