DR FAHMIDA KHATUN

About

Dr Fahmida Khatun is the Executive Director at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank in Bangladesh. She is also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in the USA.

She did her Postdoctoral research at Columbia University, USA, and undertook joint research with Professor Jeffery Sachs. She has a Masters and PhD in Economics from University College London (UCL), University of London. She has also participated in the Leadership Decision-Making programme at Harvard University, USA.

Dr Khatun sits regularly in various policy-making and advisory bodies at home and abroad. Dr Khatun is a member of the High-level Advisory Board on the Productive Capacities Index of UNCTAD. She is also a member of the BRAC Board, the largest non-governmental organisation in the world, which works for the cause of the left-behind people. Dr Khatun is a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an initiative of Boston University, USA.

Earlier, she worked as a Research Fellow at the BIDS, an Environment Specialist for the UNDP, and an Economist for the USAID Mission in Bangladesh. She taught economics at universities in Bangladesh and England and was a Visiting Fellow at various international research organisations. In 2023, she was the Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force on “Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda” to the G20.

She has several publications to her credit at home and abroad.