Dr Fahmida Khatun is the Executive Director at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank in Bangladesh. She is also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in the USA.

She did her Postdoctoral research at Columbia University, USA, and undertook joint research with Professor Jeffery Sachs. She has a Masters and PhD in Economics from University College London (UCL), University of London. She has also participated in the Leadership Decision-Making programme at Harvard University, USA.

Dr Khatun sits regularly in various policy-making and advisory bodies at home and abroad. Dr Khatun is a member of the High-level Advisory Board on the Productive Capacities Index of UNCTAD. She is also a member of the BRAC Board, the largest non-governmental organisation in the world, which works for the cause of the left-behind people. Dr Khatun is a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an initiative of Boston University, USA.