Dr. Mohammad Monirul Hasan is a Market and Trade Policy Advisor of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Besides, he is an Economist and affiliated Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany- a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultured research organization in Bonn. He has finished a Ph.D. in agriculture economics from the University of Bonn, Germany in 2017. He was a DAAD Ph.D. Fellow and Junior Researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), the University of Bonn in Germany where he started his doctoral studies in 2013 and defended his PhD thesis on 19 December 2017. His Ph.D. research topic is "Investment in health within agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene nexus for the rural households in Bangladesh". He has conducted a Randomized Controlled Trial experiment on Food Hygiene Education (FHE) in rural Bangladesh for his doctoral research. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the dept. of Economics at the East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Over the last three years, Dr. Hasan was providing technical advisory services to the FAO-Meeting the Undernutrition Challenges (MUCH) project to the government of Bangladesh to formulate national food and nutrition security policy, its plan of action (PoA), and to write the monitoring reports of the Country Investment Plan (CIP2) of the Ministry of Food in Bangladesh. Besides, he was working in the core team for organizing the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 in Bangladesh and co-authored the National Pathway Document for Bangladesh. His task ranges from reviewing and drafting the policies, program, and investment plans to assisting thematic teams, policymakers, and sub-ordinate staff with relevant materials. Besides, different dialogue and workshops organizations and moderation of the sessions are the key activities of my job. I also provided support to the other FAO projects in Bangladesh as well as in the FAO-RAP.
Dr. Hasan was directly supervised by Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun, the ex-Director General of IFPRI and a renowned economist of the world. Dr. Hasan received a Ph.D. in Agriculture Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany with a “Magna Cum Laude” (Outstanding) result in December 2017. He was hosted at the IFPRI Dhaka office for almost a year during his Ph.D. fieldwork for conducting an RCT experiment on Food Hygiene Education in Bangladesh. He also used IFPRI's BIHS 2011-12 and 2015 datasets for his Ph.D. research. His Ph.D. research title was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundation of the Fiat Panis, and DAAD. After finishing his doctoral research he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the same center for several months. Dr. Hasan was an extraordinary scholar in his all academic career. He holds three Master's degrees: MSc in Food and Resource Economics (U Bonn, Germany), MSc in Rural Development and Agri-business (Corvinus U Budapest, Hungary), and MSS in Economics (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh). He did his Bachelor's (honors) in Economics from the Economics department of the University of Dhaka. He served at the Institute for Inclusive Finance and Development (InM) from 2008 to 2015 as a Senior Research Associate. He also worked for The Fred Hollows Foundation, Cordaid-Netherlands, BIDS, BRAC University, INAFI, and BASUG.
Dr. Hasan is an expert in several topics including agriculture, food and nutrition, poverty and health, water, sanitation and hygiene, micro-finance and vulnerability, social protection and migration, and environment and seasonality. He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He has also published several discussion papers and monograms for ZEF and the University of Bonn. Dr. Hasan received very good orientation in economics and econometrics from home and abroad. He is also an expert in developing survey tools, survey administration, data processing, and data digitization. He has managed and analyzed several longitudinal data, administrative data, climate data, microbiological data, nutritional data, market price and trade data, and microfinance branch level data with extensive use of statistical software, especially Stata. He has already conducted several national and regional level surveys from ZEF, InM, BRAC University, INAFI, East West University, and CDE. He has conducted the RCT experiment under his own management and supervision while having technical assistance from Brac, IFPRI, and Rajshahi University biological science lab. He possesses very good management and communication skills. He conducted collaborative works and research projects with government agencies, donors, local NGOs, and international researchers in his several projects. He has conducted almost 15 projects in his 10 (ten) years of experience in research, survey administration, and data management. He has also presented his research papers at many international conferences. Dr. Hasan is a very active academic and regularly writes scientific articles. He is also well versed in producing journal papers, reports, policy papers, policy briefs,s and media outputs. He has the necessary diplomatic skills to negotiate in fundraising, collaborations, and network with many national and international agencies. He is proactive, results-focused, and has strong problem-solving and project-management capabilities.
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