BIGD’s Executive Director Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman had several meetings in June 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 Ms. Meg McDermott, Programme Officer at Pact World; Dr. Shamsul Alam, Member GED, Planning Commission; Christopher Woodruff, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick; and Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture. Dr. Rahman had also attended several meetings with the Oxford University and Manchester University’s delegates.