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Dr. M. Asaduzzaman, Research Director (see http://www.bids-bd.org/) Dr. M. Asaduzzaman, joined the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the precursor of the BIDS, in 1969 as Staff Economist. He holds his current post since end 1997. Key capabilities of Dr. M. Asaduzzaman encompass several areas of professional and institutional activities. He has been educated in the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex, England. He has a research experience in various fields. Generally they fall in the area of agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. Within this broad area, his past research includes one of the first rigorous studies on technological change in agriculture (Ph.D. thesis), institutional and management issues in rural infrastructure development (one of the first rigorous such analysis of WFP-aided programs anywhere in the world), environmental issues such as coastal environmental management, climate change, compre-hensive evaluation of water resource development, comparative evaluation of poverty eradication programs under alternative institutional frameworks, critical review of long-term historical record of growth performance of Bangladesh agriculture, energy model-ing, particularly related to climate change issues, local level planning, local government resource mobilization, construction of I-O model for Bangladesh and agriculture trade and globalization and modeling of free trade arrangements. Dr. Asaduzzaman's current research interests include modeling of Bangladesh trade under WTO and free trade rules, rural energy, energy development and its governance with particular reference to the power sector, and private investment in schooling. Dr. Asaduzzaman has served in various national and international committees including the high powered committee on WTO matters under the Ministry of Commerce, and also as Chair and earlier member of the Consultative Group of Experts for the Non-Annex 1 countries of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.