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Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka and founder of the NGO named Center for Men and Masculinities Studies. Expert in gender and masculinities, gender equality, and women’s empowerment issues. Obtained PhD on Social and Behavioral Science and experienced in developing quantitative and qualitative analyses, policy briefs, and technical papers.
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Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels, and CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw, Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Vienna. First Deputy Minister of Finance of Poland (1989-1990) and a Member of the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland (1998-2004). Involved in policy advising and research in 20+ countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa under the UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, IMF, EU, USAID, OECD, GIZ and OSI projects. Member of the Academia Europaea. Author of 300+ international publications.
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Dr. Md. Ahsan Habib is a professor and has been working as a faculty member in the Institute of Education and Research of University of Dhaka since 2005. He received his doctoral degree from prestigious Monash University, Melbourne. He has wide range of research interests including training, inclusive and disability, student voice, sense of belonging, ECCD. Several of his research papers and book chapters have been published by national and international publishers. Dr. Habib has been working as a research lead and consultant in several international and national projects.
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Associate Professor of Gender and Feminism at University of Dhaka. Researching issues in relation to intersectional dimensions and social inequalities is my main passion.
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Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of Dhaka.
Completed PhD in Human Rights Education, from the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Completed MA in Global and International Education, Department of Education, University of York, UK.
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Dr. Mohammad Mainul Islam is a professor and former Chairman of the Department of Population Sciences of the University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh. He got his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from DU and later received his Ph.D. in Demography from the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, China. Dr. Islam completed a Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University, Canada. His work broadly focuses on population and development, global health, population and education policies, and the child and youth population.
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Nizni did her Master’s from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her work with Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences focusses on engaging indigenous communities in governance processes. She has worked with the UN on mitigating involuntary displacement and gender responsive planning & budgeting and with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist. Nizni was part of Professional Fellows Programme sponsored by the US Dept of State. She was also awarded the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence hosted at University of Oxford.
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Dr. Sadik Hasan, Ph.D. (Sydney), is a Professor of Public Administration at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research focuses on governance, e-governance, e-transparency, South Asian politics, local government, women in South Asia, and parliament. Dr. Hasan has long experience of conducting academic research, commissioned research, and assessing and evaluating different public and private sector projects and programs for various government agencies and developing partners, e.g., the UNDP, World Bank, USAID BMEL Activity, European Union Delegation, etc.
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Iulian Oneasca is specialized in reforms and social policies, with society as a whole as its main area of interest. PhD in economics, training in macroeconomics and social policies, as well as the experience gained in projects with external financing, complement his economics studies. He worked for about 15 years as part of international teams of experts, for prestigious institutions, such as: the International Labor Office, the Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ - GmbH) and the Romanian central administration. The EU's social patterns and processes
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Vanika Sharma is a Junior Economist at European Centre for International Political Economy, where she works on topics such as trade dependencies and digital trade. She is a co-tutor for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) course on Trade and Gender Linkages in the LDCs. She has also worked on consultancy projects with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on FDI, including on gender and FDI, and with International Trade Centre on their SheTrades Outlook project. She is a Master’s graduate from Sciences Po, Paris in International Economic Policy and holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Delhi.