BIGD’s Executive Director Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman had several meetings in April with a number of distinguished personalities such as prominent academics and researchers regarding the research collaboration and other relevant issues of BIGD. Dr. Rahman had meeting with Mr. Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Secretary, Cabinet Division; Mr. Farid Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Secretary, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Ministry of Planning; Dr. Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury, BB, Mineral Resources Adviser to the Honourable Prime Minister of Bangladesh; Prof. Asad Islam , Monash University; Mr. Faisal Ahmed, Senior Economic Adviser, Bangladesh Bank; Mr. Thomas Dreesen, Research Manager, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School; Ms. Sarah Shehabuddin, Assistant Professor, Asian University for Women (AUW), Chittagong and Dr. Parul Agarwal, Associate Director-Financial Inclusion, Centre for Microfinance of the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR). Dr. Rahman also attended the Birthdays celebrations of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed at the BRAC CDM and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the British High Commission of Bangladesh. Dr. Rahman also attended a lunch meeting with Kaspar Grossenbacher, Country Director, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh in April.