Dr. Malek Mohammad Abdul

-PhD (Rural Econ.), The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan in 2010.

-MAg (Rural Economics), Yamaguchi University, Japan in 2007.

-MSS (Econ), University of Dhaka in 2000.

-BSS (Honors) in Economics, University of Dhaka in 1999.

Dr. Mohammad Abdul Malek is currently a Senior/Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, Bonn and also a Senior Research Fellow at Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC, Dhaka. He did his PhD on Rural Economics from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan September 2010. Prior he learnt Rural Economics and Economics from Yamaguchi University, Japan and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh respectively. During his 12 years long career, he also worked for Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Comilla for about four and a half years and Institute of Microfinance (InM), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) based in Dhaka for the shorter durations. Dr. Malek published 6 (six) academic papers at peer reviewed journals, presented researches at several International/national conferences, and so on. While his specialization includes rural economics, rural development projects, applied micro-econometrics, etc., recent research interests are experimental economics and program evaluation: ex-ante and ex-post in the field of food security and agricultural technology for the marginalized poor, rural institutions, WATSAN, rural education, micro-finance and economic empowerment of the rural female youth, etc.

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• Renewable energy
• Biodiversity
• Human Rights
• Agriculture, land use, climate change

• Bangladesh

Technology (ex-ante) assessment and farm household segmentation for inclusive poverty reduction and sustainable growth in agriculture (TIGA)

Senior Research Fellow, Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC, Dhaka

-PhD (Rural Econ.), The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan in 2010.

-MAg (Rural Economics), Yamaguchi University, Japan in 2007.

-MSS (Econ), University of Dhaka in 2000.

-BSS (Honors) in Economics, University of Dhaka in 1999.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Accelerating Rice Productivity Growth in Bangladesh (ARPGB): A field experiment with SRI technology in Bangladesh working as co-investigator with Dr. Asadul Islam, Dr. Sisira Jayasuriya, Dr. Chirstopher B Barrett, Dr. Marcel Fafchamps under Moansh-BRAC collaboration with IGC funding.

• Improving educational outcomes of female and disadvantaged primary school students: randomized experiments to evaluate efficacy of greater parental involvement and supplementary teaching in Bangladesh and evaluation of BRAC Chatrabondhu (Friends of students). Working as co-investigator with Dr Asadul Islam under Moansh- BRAC collaboration with AUSAID funding.

• Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) working as Co-investigator with Dr. Mahabub Hossain and Ms. Barnali Charabarti at BRAC RED under DFID funded Research Program Consortium.