Md. Shakil Ahmed is working as a Senior Research Associate at BIGD and has over 8 years of experience in conducting research related to issues of nutrition and food security, migration, industrial growth and utilization of resources. He is experienced in conducting impact evaluations and is skilled in quantitative data collection and analysis, RCTs and field based experiments. He also has notable expertise in cost benefit analysis of nutrition sensitive and specific interventions and working with vulnerable communities. Prior to joining BIGD he worked in the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC for seven years with different capabilities. Shakil holds an MSc in Development Evaluation and Management from the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium and a Masters in Economics from Khulna University, Bangladesh.