Editors:
Basundhara Tripathy
Basundhara Tripathy Furlong is a PhD fellow at Wageningen University and Research in Netherlands. She is an anthropologist by training and her research interests include climate change, human mobility, gender, resilience, anthropology-development nexus and environment. Her PhD research focuses on environmental change and migration and the gendered impact of social remittances in Southwest Bangladesh. She obtained her MSc. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2012 and completed her undergraduate studies from the University of Delhi in Sociology (Hons.). She was a lecturer at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and carried out empirical research in India and Bangladesh.
Meherun Ahmed
Meherun Ahmed, Associate Professor of Economics, joined Asian University for Women (AUW) in Fall of 2010. She has received both her Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. At AUW she teaches Microeconomics, Development Economics, Labor Economics and Game Theory. Her research focuses on the microeconomic analysis of household behavior, with an emphasis on investment in education and health, migration, crisis coping mechanisms, nutrition, poverty, inequality, as well as labor force supply. She also served as the associate dean of special programs at AUW. Before Joining AUW, she was an assistant professor at Carleton College in Minnesota, USA. She has worked for many national and international development agencies and think tanks like the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, International Organization of Migration and Institute of Microfinance. She has published in reputed journals and presented her research in numerous conferences.
Samiya Selim
Dr. Samiya Selim is an Associate Professor and the Director of Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). She specialises in the interdisciplinary areas of socio-ecological systems, sustainability science, climate change adaptation and resilience, and science-policy interface. Currently her work is focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), ecosystem based adaptation and integrated aquaculture in coastal areas of Bangladesh facing increased salinity and erosion.
In the past 10 years, Samiya has worked in the UK and Bangladesh in the field of environmental conservation, climate change and fisheries. Her previous work includes mobilizing hard-to-reach communities to get involved in environmental activities and to bring about behavioral change to achieve sustainability in daily life. Her work has also utilized historical approaches to identify shifting baselines in fisheries and coastal ecosystems. She recently published the first book on achieving the SDG goals relating to the environment in Bangladesh.
She is a member of the IMBeR Human Dimensions Working Group which focuses on the interactions between human and ocean systems and its goal is to promote an understanding of the multiple feedbacks between human and ocean systems. She is also a member of Fashion Revolution Bangladesh where she is the stakeholder coordinator in linking private sector, academics and policy makers in working towards sustainable production in the garments and textile industry.
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