Dear Hiring Manager,
I am an Independent Consultant based in Bangladesh. I have completed my Master of Science in Applied Economics (MSAE) from BRAC University, with major concentration in Public Policy. I have also done my Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) in Economics from the same university.
I started my career as a Research Assistant at Research Cell, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University in 2007. Later in 2009 I was promoted as Research Associate. I worked under several research projects funded by SANDEE, IFC-BICF (International Finance Corporation - Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund) and BRAC University. The projects I worked included areas such as health and environmental economics namely water and sanitation, adaptation and mitigation strategies of extreme events in climate change, and the impact of climate change in the energy sector.
In April, 2010, I was also appointed as a consultant for a period of two months by BRAC Development Institute (BDI) for three of their existing projects titled Food Security for the Ultra Poor Program, Strengthening Social Safety Net Programs for the Extreme poor in Bangladesh and Improving Bangladesh's Response and Recovery Activities in the Aftermath of Disasters.
At present I am working as an Independent Consultant for a Dhaka based research organizations. My primary task is to edit and proofread any research papers and reports that are waiting for submission to the press for printing. I am also working with a Dhaka based firm, who work as a back office for their UK counterpart. My duties include collecting news related to political, economic, social and cultural risks of several Asian countries, and list them on their data base.
As an Independent Consultant I concentrate on proofreading reports and research papers, writing academic articles and chapters, report writing, data cleaning, data analysis, data interpretation, econometric modeling, data interpretation and evaluation, questionnaire designing, developing data entry software, business and other software development, website development, logo and banner designing, web hosting. Apart from normal OLS regression, I have sufficient expertise in econometric models specially Logit, Probit, Tobit and Count Data models, specifically the Negative Binomial Hurdle model. For data analysis I use STATA and SPSS.
I believe my educational qualification coupled with my work experience makes me eligible for this post.
Looking forward to hear from you soon.
Thanks
Fahim S Chowdhury