Candidate info

I was selected member of the UN Youth Assembly on Environment in 1972. I worked as a Field Director at US Committee for UNICEF and worked as a journalist at UNDP, New York. I was awarded the United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 Roll of Honour at the UN Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio. I was elected as Vice President of the Global 500 Forum. I taught English at Dhaka University, was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, George Washington University and Harvard University. I was elected to Parliament and served as elected Chairperson of a Parliamentary Committee for Coastal Development and Environment where I presented an integrated coastal zone management policy, which was adopted by the Bangladesh Government. I have also been involved with major national policies relating to environment and water. I was appointed to the Governing Council of the Bangladesh Water Board. I was peer reviewer for IPCC. I advised the Bangladesh Zoo. I campaigned for declaring protected marine areas and Sundarbans as World Heritage Site. I co-chaired the Women for Water Sharing and Peoples Initiative for Water Sharing and presented guidelines for the Ganges Water Treaty (1994). I visited India and Nepal for people’s cooperation for water sharing towards peaceful conflict resolution. I introduced a Resolution for cooperation of all co-riparian countries in the management of common rivers, which was passed at IUCN Congress in Bangkok. I was elected chairperson for two terms at the Bangladesh National Committee of IUCN.