Professor Hafiza Khatun, PhD

Professor Dr. Hafiza Khatun, A Human Geographer with a specialization in Social, Population, Gender, and Urban Geography as well as Disaster Management. Professor Khatun earned her B.A. (Hons) in Geography and MA in Population Geography from Jahangirnagar University, MA in Urban Geography from the University of Alberta, Canada, and PhD in Anthropo-Geography from University of Dhaka. Dr. Khatun is a Professor of Geography and Environment, former Director, Disaster Research Training and Management Centre (DRTMC) and former Chairperson, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka. She has served as a part-time professor at BRAC University and Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), designed and taught Management of Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (MLARR), Disaster Management and Environmental Management. She has 40 years of teaching and research experience supervised more than 30 research work at the postgraduate level for MS, MPhil, and PhD degree. The author of 70 academic articles, she has also authored/edited nine books published at home and abroad, editor of three journals and members of the editorial board of the other two journals. She is a practitioner Social Safeguard Specialist and contributed to policies and planning related to land acquisition, development activities, social, gender, and resettlement issues of the country as well as at the international level. She worked on more than 150 development projects with various Development Partners. Professor Khartoum is a member of 14 national and international professional societies/associations, including president of the Bangladesh Geographical Society (BGS) and Bangladesh Resettlement Network (BRN), advisor of the Orphanage of Anjum, and Mafijul Islam and actively involved with other philanthropic activities.

Abu Syed Mohammad Hashim

Abu Syed Mohammad Hashim is a veteran civil servant. He got retired as Additional Secretary of the Bangladesh Government from the Ministry of Public Administration. He had a rich experience working in a different tier of Bangladesh government. He served as Director- General of the Department of Disaster Management, Director of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, Deputy Commissioner at Sylhet and Joypurhat DC office, and UNO at Satkania
Upazilla in Chattogram. He had got some international degrees from reputed institutions all over the world. Abu Syed Mohammad Hashim is a veteran civil servant. He obtained a degree in Diplomatic Chinese For Diplomats from Asia-Pacific Countries (China), Public Procurement Management
for High-Level Officials (Italy), Search Regional Training on Flood Risk Management (India), and Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (Japan). His key area of interest is the Disaster Risk reduction strategy, Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security, Disaster management framework in Bangladesh.

Engr. Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan

Engr. Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan, psc (Retd), A veteran military commander and all-rounder military leader with 38 years of experience, Former “Director General (Fire Chief)” of the Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defense “The Life Saving Force” has safeguarded the country and its citizens for the record longest duration over half a decade.

As a former Chief Engineer and Director Works of Military Engineering Services, Bangladesh Navy and Deputy Managing Director of ‘Sena Kalyan Sangstha’ with the command, management and engineering career over 3 decades at home and abroad, has planned and directed numbers of iconic marvel infrastructure development works, sensitive projects in local, international, and multi-cultural environments.

As the Fire Chief, he led through planning, administration, operation, training, and management in developing his men, team, and force to ensure fire safety and affirm emergency response for disaster prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and building disaster-resilient society till retirement. The Disaster Manager developed his expertise on effective disaster management through ‘On ground Emergency Management’, ‘Gaining Disaster Resilient Engineering Skills’, ‘Disaster Resilience Planning’, ‘National Level Policy Formulation’, ‘Coordinating with both Upper and Lower Level Stakeholders in National Crisis’, ‘Instructing the Regulatory Teams’ and ‘Administering with Leadership qualities’

Professor Md. Humayun Kabir, PhD

Dr. Md. Humayun Kabir is a Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the same Department in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Dr. Kabir attained his second Master’s degree in Natural Resources Management at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, where he received the most-outstanding academic award. He achieved his Ph.D. (in Natural Science) from the Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Germany in 2011. His research interest spans over renewable energy, specifically planning with new renewable, environment and natural resources management, disaster management, and studies of climatic issues. A good number of national and international articles have already been published to his credit. He is also the author of two research-based books. The first book is on wetland conservation and the second one is on renewable energy resources in Bangladesh. He worked as the associate editors of the by-annual journal Oriental Geographer, The Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Journal of Bangladesh National Geographical Association.

Professor Hafiz Ashraful Haque, PhD

Dr. Hafiz Ashraful Haque is an Assistant Professor and the Chairman at the Department of Coastal Studies and Disaster Management as well as at the Director, Research and Extension at the University of Barisal. He obtained his bachelor’s (2001 held at 2004) and Masters’ degree (2002 held in 2006) in the Department of Soil, Water, and Environment from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has obtained his Doctor of Engineering (2013) degree in Molecular Design and Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan as a full bright MEXT Scholar. He has been serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Venture Business Laboratory and Seki Laboratory at Nagoya University from April 2013 to October 2015. Then he has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences at the University of Barisal. After having served for nine months, he has appointed as the founding Chairperson of the Department of Coastal Studies and Disaster Management. He has published some articles in high impact factor journals and also in native journals in different areas of Science and Engineering including Cutting Edge Technology (In-situ Nano Fabrication), Environmental Science, and Agriculture. Now he is doing some research in Riverbank Erosion, Disaster Risk Perception, Soil Science, and different areas. He is also the founding Director of Research and Extension at the University of Barisal, which aims at ensuring high-quality research in this institution. He is now working with some projects in riverbank erosion and water quality parameter changes in passenger vehicles. 

Mr. Nauman

Nauman has over 9 years of experience in international development on projects related to development, agriculture, governance, the environment & climate change. Including conceptualizing and proposing project ideas, research & advocacy, and implementing environmentally sound practices, organizing campaigns, knowledge management, outreach, communications, social media, reporting and proposal writing for international donor agencies and the UN system of agencies. His interests primarily lie in the communication of climate change knowledge, and its influence on perceived notions of climate change as well as other environmental challenges, and their influence on sustainable development. He is constantly exploring means to make the transfer of knowledge geared toward developing more effective adaptive capacity and climate change policy. He previously worked at the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), GIZ, and UNDP. More recently, he was at the UN Environment headquarters in Nairobi supporting countries establishing early warning systems and advising on the development of National Adaptation Plans for 54 countries worldwide, as well as a core team member of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Resilience Initiative (A2R). At the IOM, he focused on rehabilitating the degraded environment in and around the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar as well as implementing disaster risk reduction measures related to landslides, cyclones, storm surges, and lightning risks respectively. He is currently based at the Danish Embassy as a development advisor leading the implementation of the agriculture and climate mitigation portfolio of projects. 

Zobaer Ahmed

Zobaer Ahmed is a multidisciplinary, freelancer, international research and development specialist with 7 years of experience in the developmental sector research, project management, and implementation across 10 counties which include Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Malaysia), Central Europe (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy) and North America (USA) with 15+ renowned international organizations. Personal strengths include multitasking, working under tight schedules, collaborating with senior management, and maintaining a positive work ethic and attitude. Key areas of interest and expertise include Climate and its Impact Assessment, Vulnerabilities and Risk Analysis, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security, Human-Environment System Interactions, Research and Innovation, Sustainability Research, Proposal Writing, Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management, Technology, Strategic Planning, Market research, Relief, and Field Operation.

Md. Abu Syed

Md. Abu Syed is a General Secretary of community development for peace. He is also a lecturer of English at Dhaka Residential Model College since 2015. He was Divisional Coordinator of teacher development at an international organization, call English in action (www.eiabd.com).

Md Fahim Azraf Khan

Md Fahim Azraf Khan is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Information, Technology and Sciences (UITS) and enrolled in the Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management (PODM) at BRAC University. He has obtained his bachelor degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He is also affiliated with Community Development for Peace (CDP) as a Research Associate and already gathered experience being specification analysts at UNDP and Research Assistant at BUET. He has co-authored in a good number of national and international research publications which are mainly related to coastal disaster management. He has contributed to finding sustainable and environmentally friendly building material to be used in the marine environment. He has contributed to finding an inclusive design for cyclone centers situated in Cox’s Bazar and vastly worked on salinity problems.Mr. Fahim performed in making risk reduction strategies at earthquake incidents for 30(thirty) government-owned primary schools in Old Dhaka. His contribution also includes creating a waste supply chain to reduce landfill disasters and determining the quality of drinking water of Dhaka Wasa. He also worked to find the most efficient flood relief products for the flood seasons of 2019 and 2020 for Disaster Response and Recovery Facilities (DRRF), UNDP.

Md Abu Musa

Md Abu Musa was involved in research activities related to disaster management from quite a long time. He had contributed to four different organizations as an independent researcher. In his second service in Disabled Rehabilitation and Research Association (DRRA), he joined as an Advocacy and Documentation Officer and he researched people with disabilities and wrote many case studies on them in Chattagram and Manikganj district. Later on, he served as a Project Officer under the project entitled “Capacity Building for Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Urban Areas of Bangladesh.” The project was implemented by SEEDS Asia, an INGO and funded by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The project had two sides; working directly on the capacity building for the community and writing a research paper under a professor of the University of Dhaka entitled “Assessment of Urban Disaster Resilience in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), Bangladesh’’. Finally, after joining in Poriborton Chai as National Project Coordinator, he had to research on how to manage solid wastes and convert that into compost in secondary schools of Bangladesh. There he had to develop a training module for the government officers of National Youth Center on how should they manage solid wastes in government offices. Alongside this, he is experienced to communicate with the partner NGOs/INGOs, government high officials, meeting with secretariat etc. Also, He is oriented with a good number of donor reporting formats, such as CBM, AusAID, JICA, SEEDS Asia etc. and practically prepared project periodical reports for those agencies’ assigned project periodical reports, such as quarterly and yearly statistic and narrative reports. And more importantly, at present, he is doing researches on urban resilience of DNCC and writing a review paper on solid wastes management in
Bangladesh.

Md. Nayem Hasan Munna

Md. Nayem Hasan Munna is in his 4th year 2nd semester of studies towards a bachelor’s in Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Barisal, Bangladesh. He is a Soil and Environmental Steward. He is consistent to do well for the sustainability of the earth and its environment. He is the founder of Earth Review. Org. He is good at different research idea generation and formulating methodologies in a problem-solving manner. His research interests focus on Soil and Environmental Management, Climate Change, Water Quality, and Disaster Management, etc.

He received training in writing research proposals, conducting scientific research, data analysis from different organizations. He has expertise in operating different software, e.g. SPSS, ArcGIS, GraphPad Prism, Microsoft office. He has been working as a team leader of the Research Group of the University of Barisal and the director of the group is Dr. Hafiz Ashraful Haque, Assistant Professor and Chairman of Coastal Studies and Disaster Management. He participated in the 2nd International Congress on Earth Sciences 2019 as a poster presenter, from 18th November to 20th November 2019 at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, Bali, Indonesia, and in Asia World Model United Nations II 2019 from 30th January to 2nd February 2019 at Prince Palace Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. His ultimate goal is to contribute to Bangladesh’s environmental sector through his scientific research which is very needful for the country.

Sufiya Khatun

Sufiya Khatun is a BSc student of Coastal Studies and Disaster Management Department at University of Barisal. First, she was admitted to the Ghugrakati Govt Primary School for primary education. Then, she was admitted to Amadi Jaguar Mahal Tokimuddin Secondary High School and then Khan Sahib Komoruddin Degree College for higher education. She got a GPA of 5.00 (Golden) in SSC as well as getting Board Scholarship. Again, she got a GPA of 4.92 in HSC.

Now she is a 3^rd-year student at the University of Barisal maintaining CGPA 3.97. She has some technical skills like working knowledge of Geographical Information System, Remote Sensing, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint. Recently, she worked on a research project titled “Impact of Recent Cyclones in Southern Region of Bangladesh” and collected field level data, where she conducted a group visited at several cyclones affected areas in Korea Upazilla, Khulna. Mostly, every year the southern region of Bangladesh faces several cyclones for its geographical location (low lying part of Bangladesh and very close to the Bay of Bengal). She is seeking to get more experiences and gather more knowledge to do something better and effective for her disaster-prone motherland (Bangladesh).

Nargis Akter Shapna

Nargis AkterShapna is a final year student at the department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Barisal, Bangladesh. She is an environmental enthusiastic. She is a co-founder of Earth Review (www.earthreview.org). She is working as an article writer on Earth Review and Voice of Environment (VOE), organization for Clean, Green, and Sustainable Environment, India. She aims to be a researcher. She is deeply interested in research focusing on Soil, Environment, Soil Quality, Water Quality, Disaster Management, etc. She is highly expert in Microsoft Office, SPSS, and ArcGIS. She has done many academic projects as a student, for example, i) “Environmental Impact Assessment of Sheikh Russel Bridge Construction Project, Patuakhali, Bangladesh”, ii) “Health Impacts of Climate Change on the Vulnerable Community of Kirtonkhola Riverine: Recommending Adaptation Strategies and Mitigation Measures” etc. She participated as a scientific poster presenter in International Symposium on Environment, Disaster, and Health (ISEDH) from 18th to 20th December 2019 at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Building, Dhaka University, Bangladesh. She has volunteer experience in collecting data through questionnaire, field survey as well as case studies, for example, she worked as a volunteer with Skill and Employment for Environmentally Displaced Youth (SEED Youth) project of the Prantojon organization under the Bangladesh Firestarter Initiative (BFI) Project, ActionAid Bangladesh. She likes to learn and use her special ideas, strategies, and innovative planning for getting success in any sector of her life.

Shah Sakib Sadman Pranto

Shah Sakib Sadman Pranto is a graduate-level student at the Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka. He completed his SSC and HSC from Rangpur Cadet College with a GPA of 5.00. With CGPA 3.88 in the first semester, he secured the second position at the University. He has been working at CDP as the research and development executive for last more than one year. He is a very talented, dedicated, career-oriented, and hardworking guy. He plans to be an international researcher and do something good to ensure community development in the world for establishing peace. His areas of interest are Public Policy, Political Economy, Good governance, and gender issues.

Bima Immain

BimaImmain is a student at Independent University, Bangladesh and currently perusing a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. She has always been passionate about the environment, and continued working towards it through her work. She believed in capacity building through the youth and hence during her tenure as the Treasurer of the student club, Green Planet Club, she played an active role in organizing events that allowed the students to grasp the idea of environmental security. She believes that encouraging the youth allows them to become agents of change leading to a more environmentally sustainable future. She had a keen interest in research as well, hence she took part in the ongoing research at the time on the “Jackal Project” under the School of Environmental Science from October 2016 to August 2018. During her tenure at the Green Planet Club, she had been able to connect herself with multiple development agencies and tried to hone her skills as much as possible, she is currently is a member of the youth networks of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Wild Life Conservation Society, Creative Conservation Alliance.

Sameera Anowar

Sameera has completed her Higher Secondary School Certificate in science. Currently, she is perusing her BSc in Environmental Science at Independent University, Bangladesh. Along with the study, she is a member of environment club at IUB. She went on more than 10 tours and participates in many workshops so it can help to put her skills into practice. She has also attended a three-day workshop for the conservation and worked as a facilitator in a Jamalpur School with school children.

S.M. Rakib Imran Moukul

S.M. Rakib Imran Moukul, student of BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology. His creative & enthusiastic persona & dedication to peace-oriented action made him an established member also Coordinator, Cox’s Bazar District of YCoalition, a youth leadership organization that works for the youth. He was the leader of Teknaf Upazilla in Bangladesh Scout & also deputy leader of Cox’s Bazar district. He participated in the National Jamboree in Dhaka Gazipur. He served in the Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) as CUO and Leader of BNCC, Karnafully Battalion. He served there as a 39th Annual Sports Parade Commander of Chittagong Cantonment Public College. He also participated in a 20 day long annual summit for selected Cadet Ambassador by BNCC to represent the Bangladesh team in Sri Lanka, where He got a chance to meet with their President, Policy Makers, and Defense High officials of Sri Lanka, He also visited the different natural and historical places of Sri Lanka.

Tabassum Islam Nabila

Tabassum is a recent postgraduate student of the Department of Development Studies from East-West University. She also completed her Bachelor’ of Social Science in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, East-West University. She had the experience to work at Rupayan Group as an Executive Assistant. Her core responsibilities were an appointment with clients and site visits, data bank management and attending sales meetings, data entry, customer service and assisting the customer, follow up paper ads, making reports daily/monthly, and submit the report to the AGM, etc.

She completed her internship at the Bangladesh Institute of Social Research Trust as a Research Intern. For her internship, she was responsible for making presentations and CV, fieldwork for a specific project, report writing, writing a literature review of articles, summary writing for a specific project, periodic reports and documentation, conference work, data cleaning, etc. She also enrolled in Vision Institute as a Computer trainer for volunteer work. Vision Institute Bangladesh has taken the initiative to provide computer training to the disadvantaged children of the country. As a part of this great initiative, she provided basic computer training to the disadvantaged children of the country.

Sanjana Tahmid

Sajana Tahmid, a pharmacy graduate from North South University working as a business development executive in a startup healthcare technology company. She works for the development in the area of digital health care system through telemedicine and for the ensuring of complete health care for every patient under this platform spatially diabetic by connecting with their physician and by providing other necessary facilities from home. Her undergraduate research project was on to determine the reliability of GAPDH as a reference
gene for further specific gene expression by RT-PCR in normal and obese mice. She got some skills in computer-aided drug design, molecule docking using various software. She had a hidden desire to do something which would be socially impactful and would come into use for a large population for the betterment of their lifestyle and make our living place happy, healthy, and beautiful. She is ambivert in nature, likes to explore interesting things.
Photography, traveling are her hobbies. She loves to see the view of nature through the eye lens and capture the moment through an artificial lens. She believes the way Pablo Picasso believed and said that “ Everything you can imagine is real “. So she thinks great possibilities start from the imagination and along with that effort, dedication takes these possibilities to its reality and makes the difference.

Niaz Makhdum

Niaz Makhdum is currently serving as a Research Associate at Community Development for Peace – CDP. Before joining CDP, he worked as a research fellow at WaterAid Bangladesh, a research enumerator at WBB Trust, and a selected fellow of Teach for Bangladesh. Niaz has completed his graduation and post-graduation in public administration from the University of Dhaka. His research interests include public health, governance, political economy, and human rights issues around the world.

Nilufar Yeasmin

Nilufar is currently working as a Program Officer in Community Development for Peace (CDP).
Her core responsibilities are report writing, proposal writing, content writing, research paper
writing, planning and coordination of program and activities and to oversee the progress of the
projects. She provides operational and administrative assistance to the Program Leader and
Program Staff in support of the operations of the Program. She is also a school teacher in
Bangladesh International Tutorial Limited School. In BITL, she is a senior science teacher.
Nilufar has completed her M.sc in Environmental management and she has done her B.Sc. in
Environmental Science from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). She was the Founder
and Treasurer at River Conservation Club (RCC), IUB. She was also member at different clubs
like- Youth Environmental and Social Development Society (YESDS), Green Planet club (GPC)
and Duke of Edinburgh’s club at IUB. She was also awarded for being on the Honors list under
the category of Deans list (DL) and Deans Merit list (DML) in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in IUB. She
has been certified by “The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award” for completing BRONZE,
SILVER and GOLD Awards. She is also certified for Live-in-Field Experience (LFE) where she
has learned about the demography, geography, social condition and change economy. Nilufar has

done her Internship from Department of Environment (DoE). She has also published many peer-
reviewed articles and research papers in International platforms like in the 2nd International

Youth Forum Conference on Human Rights and SDG. She has spontaneously conducted many
trainings and workshop events in different universities of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She believes in
creating a positive change in the society through inspiring the next generation youth to become
aspiring change makers. As she strongly believes that youth leadership can be one of the ways to
end global inequality.
She believes in creating a positive change in the society through inspiring the next generation
youth to become aspiring change makers. As she strongly believes that youth leadership can be
one of the ways to end global inequality.