Honorary Positions
[1] Adjunct Faculty, Department of Disaster Science and Climate Resilience, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (from May 2019 to present).
[2] Advisory Board Member, and Climate Change and Disaster Management Lead, Global Health Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (from November 2021 to December 2023).
[3] Adjunct Professor, Integrated Research Institute for Inclusive Development (IRIID), Fareast International University (FIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh (from May 2024 to present).
[4] Early Careers Representative, Disaster Risk Management Professional Practice Group (DRM PPG), the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), UK (December 2024 – Present).
Expert Panel Members
[1] Academic Expert Member, the Academic and Professional Review Panel for the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) annual Assessment of Risk (AoR) reports [June 2024 – Present].
- Assessment of Risk (AoR) report – 2024 [PDF]
- Assessment of Risk (AoR) report – 2025
[2] Advisory Committee Member, REsilience and PReparedness to tropical cyclones across Southern Africa (REPRESA). REPRESA is a multi-million-pound project funded by FCDO and IDRC under the CLARE initiative [January 2024 – Present]. [PDF]
Conferences/ Symposiums/ Workshops
[16] Co-Organiser: In-person oral panel discussion on the Politics of Denial and Non-Recognition of Genocide at the 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), Johannesburg, South Africa on 22 October 2025. [Agenda] [Letter]
[15] Co-Organiser: International Workshop on Political Transformations, Changing Heritage and Negotiating Identities: Planning, Designs and the Evolving Cultures of Dhaka, was held at Sonargaon University, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 25 January 2025. [Book of Abstracts]
[14] Co-Organiser: “IOM UN Migration Hackathon: Bridging Climate Change and Human Mobility“, organised with the International Organisation for Migration’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) team in London on 06-07 October 2023. [PDF] [IOM Report]
[13] Co-Organiser: “IOM DTM – UCL IRDR Environmental Displacement Hackathon“, organised with the International Organisation for Migration’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) team in London at University College London (UCL) on 08 June 2023.
[12] Co-Organiser: “The 1971 Bangladesh Genocide and a Call for International Recognition“; an international symposium organised by the UCL Humanitarian Institute, Bangladesh High Commission in London, and Centre for Genocide Studies at the University of Dhaka on 25 October 2022.
[11] Co-Organiser: “Humanitarian Summit: Human displacement in the context of extreme weather events and climate change“; in-person event organised by the UCL Humanitarian Institute on 15 June 2022.
[10] Co-Organiser: “High-level Panel Discussion on the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide“, a virtual event organised by the Bangladesh High Commission, London, in partnership with the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), University College London (UCL) on 25 March 2022. [PDF]
[9] Session Moderator: “Disaster displacement in the context of anthropogenic climate change” at the 1st Gobeshona Global Conference on Locally Led Adaptation (22 January 2021).
[8] Organiser: 2nd International Conference on the Rohingya Crisis in Comparative Perspective (3–4 December 2020).
[7] Organiser: Climate Change and Human Migration (09 October 2020).
[6] Organiser: UCL IRDR 10th Annual Conference: COVID-19 Pandemic – A Global Perspective (15 July 2020).
[5] Convener: Poster Session on Conflict and Disaster (NH41C) at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 on 12 December 2019 in San Francisco, CA.
[4] Organiser: International Conference on the Rohingya Crisis in Comparative Perspective (4–5 July 2019).
[3] Co-Organiser: UCL Second Humanitarian Summit, 19 June 2018.
[2] Co-Organiser: Rohingya Health and Disaster Simulation. Jointly organised by the UCL Institute of Global Health, held at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK on 30 November 2017. [Briefing] [Schedule]
[1] Co-Organiser: UCL Humanitarian Summit, 22 June 2017.