Energy Expert Details

Dr. Badrul Imam
Honorary Professor
Department of Geology
Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dhaka University

Email: badrul@du.ac.bd
Mobile (Dept): 01764077580

Dr. Badrul Imam earned his doctoral degree from London University. He also taught at universities in Canada and Saudi Arabia for several years. He has worked and wrote extensively on issues related to problems and prospects of energy resources in Bangladesh. He was a member of the national committee for formulation of coal policy and worked in the national evaluation committee of Asia Energy proposal for Phulbari open pit coal mining. He is active with the National Committee to Protect Sundarbans.

Dr. Ijaz Hossain
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)

Email: ijaz@che.buet.ac.bd
Mobile: 01611083248

Dr. Ijaz Hossain is a recognized energy and sustainable development expert in the country. His expertise is on energy efficiency, bioenergy, energy sector value chain analysis, energy modeling and planning; environmental management, green development and cleaner production. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of chemical engineering with an emphasis on energy and environment both as a teacher/researcher and as a consultant engineer.

From the very beginning of his professional career, he has been very involved in the analysis and study of the gas and power sectors. He is thus regarded as a Bangladesh energy sector expert having wide-ranging expertise. In this capacity he has advised the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources in various capacities. He has worked extensively in air pollution from brick kilns, plastics waste management and GHG greenhouse gas mitigation.

Mohammad Tamim
Dean of Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty at BUET

Mobile: 01552400224

Dr. M. Tamim is a Professor of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering, BUET, Dhaka. He graduated from BUET in Mechanical Engineering and completed his Masters from IIT, Madras. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alberata, Canada in Petroleum Engineering. He has research interest in reservoir engineering, petroleum economics and energy planning; development and application of various numerical computer models, reservoir management problems. He also has experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, energy efficiency improvement and energy related environmental remedies. Dr. Tamim has supervised several M.Sc. Students and published a number of papers in national and international journal.

He worked at different capacities relating energy policy formulation, planning and regulation with all governments since 1995. He took a one year leave from his teaching job to manage the Power and Energy Ministry in 2008 during the caretaker government period. Dr. Tamim is member and the founding Chairperson of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Bangladesh Section and a life Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)

Professor Dr. M. Shamsul Alam
Dean, Department of Information and Communication Engineering Daffodil International University

Mail: deanfe@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd
Mobile: 01713109917

Dr. M. Shamsul Alam is affiliated to Department of Civil Engineering, Daffodil International University, where Dr. M. Shamsul Alam is currently working as Dean. Dr. M. Shamsul Alam has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also working as a reviewer for reputed professional journals.

Dr. M. Shamsul Alam is having an active association with different societies and academies around the world. Dr. M. Shamsul Alam made his mark in the scientific community with the contributions and widely recognition from honorable subject experts around the world. Dr. M. Shamsul Alam has received several awards for the contributions to the scientific community. Dr. M. Shamsul Alam major research interest involves Energy Industry, Power Sector, Water Treatment, Water Supply Engineering.

Professor Anu Muhammad
Department of Economics Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.

Email: anu@juniv.edu
Cell Phone: +8801712966555

Teaching Economics at JU since 1982, also taught Anthropology from 1991 to 2005. Editor- Samaj Biggan Samekkha, Journal of the Faculty of Social Science, JU (since 2013). Editor- Sarbojonkotha (public voice) a Bangla quarterly journal (since 2014) http://sarbojonkotha.info For some essays on contemporary issues: Website: www.anumuhammad.net

RESEARCH INTEREST
Globalization, Socio-economic transformation, Development, NGO, Energy, Gender, People and Power.

Dr. Mohammad Mahfuz Kabir
Research Director
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS)

Email: mahfuz@biiss.org
Cell Phone: +8801625219754

Dr. Mohammad Mahfuz Kabir, Research Director, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). He obtained his PhD in Economics, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Australia.

He worked at different capacities relating energy policy formulation, planning and regulation with governments and private sector. Dr. Mohammad Mahfuz Kabir major research interest involves international trade, macroeconomics, regional trading blocs, SAARC, BIMSTEC, time series and panel data econometrics, partial and general equilibrium models, energy, agriculture, fiscal and monetary policies, etc.

Dr. Md. Shafiqul Islam
Professor
Department of Nuclear Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Email: msislam@du.ac.bd
Mobile (Personal): 01712042483

Md. Shafiqul Islam (PhD in nuclear safety) is a Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has also worked as Chairman in the said Department. His research interests include thermal hydraulics safety, nuclear security culture, nuclear energy economics, and nuclear energy policy. He has nearly eight years of work experiences on research reactor operation and maintenance activities during his past job at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC). Prof. Islam is working under various capacities of the nuclear power program of the country. He also provides expert services to the IAEA.

Dr. SM Nasif Shams
Associate Professor, Director
Institute of Energy University of Dhaka

Email: nasifshams@du.ac.bd
Mobile: +8801983444555

Dr. SM Nasif Shams Secretary of Bangladesh Solar Energy Society (BSES) Life Fellow Member Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) Board Member Sustainable and Renewable Energy Authority (SREDA) Board Member