Dr. Mohammad Monirul Hasan is the Head of Policy in GAIN Bangladesh office. He also served as Country Advisor at GAIN. Being an economist, Dr. Hasan is working broadly on food systems, food and nutrition security policies, market and trade, poverty and social protection, climate change and vulnerability, agricultural efficiency, investment. He worked on Food Systems National Pathway Document, Its Plan of Action, Financial Flows to Food Systems (3FS), Food Systems Dashboard, Policy Coherence Diagnostics Tools, Food Loss and Waste, SBCC on Social Protection, and Investment Roadmaps. He coordinates Foresight for food systems transformation (FoSTr) project in Bangladesh under the Foresight4food initiative implemented by Oxford University and Wageningen University and Research. He also led the Food Systems Dashboard and Financial Flows to Food Systems (3FS) in Bangladesh.
Previously, Dr. Hasan worked with the UN-FAO Bangladesh as Market and Trade Policy Advisor and East West University in Dhaka as an Assistant Professor in Economics. He conducted post-doctoral research at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn from where he finished his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agriculture Economics. He holds three master’s degrees, Food and Resource Economics from Uni Bonn (Germany), Rural Development and Agri-business from Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), and Economics from University of Dhaka (Bangladesh).