Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman is a Professorial Fellow at BIGD. Formerly, he was the Executive Director of the institute. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of BRAC University and the Asian Women’s University. His research interests are in the areas of economic growth, macroeconomic policy, governance, international trade and regional integration. Before BIGD, Dr. Rahman worked at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and was the Director General of its largest regional department–South Asia. He led policy dialogue with high level officials and political leaders in ADB’s member countries and with OECD development partners; led and supervised the strategy, planning and implementation of country, sector and regional assistance programs, as well as thematic and sector studies. Dr. Rahman started his professional career with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in 1975. He has published research papers on a wide range of economic and policy issues, and served as the Executive Editor of the Bangladesh Development Studies at BIDS. He also served as a member of several high-level government, regional, and international expert panels, task forces, and committees. These include the expert panels of the 3rd, 4th and 7th Five Year Plans of Bangladesh. In addition, he was Adviser/Consultant to the Ministries of Jute, Industry, Commerce, Finance, and Planning. Dr. Rahman also served on the boards of two banks. Dr. Rahman has worked on a wide range of developing countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and 14 Pacific Island Countries. He obtained his PhD in Development Economics from Stanford University in 1980.