Team leader - resilient development
Nazmul Huq is an urban and rural planner working on the interfaces of climate change adaptation and resilience, ecosystem services, and human livelihood to promote sustainable and resilient local development. One of his major strengths is to apply transdisciplinary and data-driven approaches and methods to assist integrated decision-making to foster sustainability decision-making across spatial and temporal scales. As the head of the Resilient Development Program at ICLEI world secretariat, his mission is to mainstream resilience thinking and actions for sustainable local development.
He has a Ph.D. degree in spatial and environmental science from the University of Trier, Germany, an Advanced Master on Human Ecology from the Free University Brussels, Belgium, and a Bachelor of Urban and Rural Planning from Khulna University, Bangladesh.
He has 10 years of working experience as a researcher and project manager at various organizations such as the Technical University of Cologne, the United Nations University in Bonn, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) in Bangladesh, Unnayan Onneshan (leading Bangladesh based think tank), Handicap International, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), among others. He has been regularly publishing scholarly articles on climate change adaptation, ecosystem and nature-based adaptation, ecosystem services, and sustainable livelihood in reputed scientific outlets.
Joined 2021
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