Dr. Rahman is a leading Environmental Development Specialist
with wide national, international and global experience, and involvement
in sustainable development, environment and resource management,
poverty and equity, disaster management, peoples participation,
global governance and modeling evaluation issues. He is also working
on capacity building, optimal capacity utilization, methodological
and institutional development in developing countries and communities.
Besides being the Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced
Studies (BCAS) which has emerged as the leading think tank in
Bangladesh and also in South Asia on Resource Management, Environment
and Sustainable Development issues Dr. Rahman is an author and
consultant on environment, sustainable development issues and
on global planning. He is also the Coordinator of a regional network
the Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) and the Coordinator
of the Global Forum on the Environment and Poverty (GFEP) an international
network mandated at UNCED. Dr. Rahman has been a consultant to
the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, many national governments, several
national and international NGOs.
