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I was born in a small town in Bangladesh, Barisal and brought up in Dhaka. My career began as a freelancer writer in different newspapers and little magazines when I was a student at University of Dhaka (2005 - 2010). Photography was my main passion, but it eventually overlapped with environmental questions related to water quality and drug activities in Dhaka. In that period, I was also affiliated with environmental activism under student organizations, primarily related to issues around land grabbing in Bangladesh.
After finishing my course work in the Department of Economics at University of Dhaka, I started to work as a research assistant in Institute of Microfinance.
My first formal research project was related to poverty reduction through microfinance in the drought-prone regions in Bangladesh. For some time, I worked in Economic Research Group on price analysis and food security.
I left Dhaka in 2011 to do masters in Economics at Simon Fraser University. My masters project was also on microfinance in Thailand. But, in my time at SFU, I got the book by Nicholas Stern, and that book influenced me to rethink about my research goal. I got interested in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and wanted to shift my research career toward climate change.
In 2013, I started my PhD in University of Illinois and defended my dissertation in June, 2019.
Other than research, I am interested in nature photography and Bengali poetry. You can find my Bengali write-ups in this website.
I was born in a small town in Bangladesh, Barisal and brought up in Dhaka. My career began as a freelancer writer in different newspapers and little magazines when I was a student at University of Dhaka (2005 - 2010). Photography was my main passion, but it eventually overlapped with environmental questions related to water quality and drug activities in Dhaka. In that period, I was also affiliated with environmental activism under student organizations, primarily related to issues around land grabbing in Bangladesh.
After finishing my course work in the Department of Economics at University of Dhaka, I started to work as a research assistant in Institute of Microfinance.
My first formal research project was related to poverty reduction through microfinance in the drought-prone regions in Bangladesh. For some time, I worked in Economic Research Group on price analysis and food security.
I left Dhaka in 2011 to do masters in Economics at Simon Fraser University. My masters project was also on microfinance in Thailand. But, in my time at SFU, I got the book by Nicholas Stern, and that book influenced me to rethink about my research goal. I got interested in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and wanted to shift my research career toward climate change.
In 2013, I started my PhD in University of Illinois and defended my dissertation in June, 2019.
Other than research, I am interested in nature photography and Bengali poetry. You can find my Bengali write-ups in this website.
