BIGD’s ED Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman had several meetings in March 2017 with a number of distinguished personalities such as prominent academics, policy makers and researchers regarding the research collaborations and other relevant issues of BIGD.
Dr. Rahman had meetings with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Chairperson BRAC; Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh; Md. Nojibur Rahman, Senior Secretary, Internal Resource Division (IRD) and Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR), Ministry of Finance; Tim Dobermann, Hub Economist for Bangladesh, IGC; Fahad Khalil, Chair, Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington; Adnan Khan, Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science and Research & Policy Director, IGC; Dr. Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Commissioner, ACC; Samar Verma Ph.D. Senior Program Officer, IDRC; Professor Ramkumar Mishra, Director, Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE); Mohan Das Manandhar, Senior Advisor, Nepal; Dr. Zafrul Islam, Lead Procurement Specialist of the World Bank and Task Team Leader, PPRP-II; Bethany L. McGann, Associate Coordinator, Research and Knowledge Management for the RESOLVE Network and Senior Program Assistant at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Barrister Manzoor Hasan, Chair, UNCAC Coalition, Executive Director, South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal Human Rights Studies (SAILS).
Dr. Hafeez attended the Consultation Workshop on Strengthening Public Private Partnership for Inclusive and Sustainable growth of Bangladesh Fisheries Sector as distinguished discussants organized by the Department of Fisheries and Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation.
Dr. Rahman also attended seminar on "Bangladesh in Focus: What can we learn about sustainable and inclusive development?” at IDS; IGC’s International Conference on Development Economics; and Gunijon Songbordhona - 2017 organized by Daily Bonik Barta.