BIGD’s Executive Director Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman had several meetings in May 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. Farid Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Secretary, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ministry of Planning; Mr. Abdul Malek, Secretary, Local Government Division; Dr. M Yunus, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS; Ms. Minne Bosma, Consultant Trainer, MDF Training & Consultancy Bangladesh; Mr. Shamsul Alam, Member, GED on Delta Plan 2100 Formulation Project; Mr. Joe Bolger, Evaluator, Building Capacity for the Use of Research Evidence (BCURE) programme in Bangladesh, DFID; Ms. Joanne Lai, Hub Economist Country Programme, IGC London Hub, Researcher; Dr. Wendy Olsen, Professor, Manchester University; Dr. Hasanuzzaman, Country Director, Copenhagen Consensus; and Mr. Jalal Ahmed, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Finance.
At the end of the month, Dr. Rahman also attended the seminar titled IGC Growth Week, held at London.