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9 September
3:31 PM – 5:30 PM
Climate Finance Analyst & Chief Executive, Change Initiative
During two decades of career, M Zakir Hossain Khan has been contributing as a front-runner global evidence-based policy and governance advocate on climate finance (including renewable energy), water and disaster responses. Mr. Khan has been performing as Founding Chief Executive of Change Initiative, a Dhaka-based thinktank. He has published more than 100 reports, journal articles and recently jointly contributed to a book titled “Climate change and community resilience: Insights from South Asia” published by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).He has recently accomplished a ground-breaking study on renewable energy finance in Bangladesh and currently contributing to build capacity of the Nepal government in access to climate finance particularly the GCF and accomplished innovative governance on climate adaptation in Bangladesh in association with SOAS, University of London. Moreover, since 2010 he has contributed to develop climate finance governance regime in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Kenya, Maldives, Nepal, Peru and Rwanda. Earlier, he performed as technical expert for the “International Climate Finance Cell” at Economic Relations Division, the GCF-NDA of Bangladesh. Throughout his career, he contributed to Green Climate Fund, University of London (SOAS), WFP, UNDP, BMZ, GIZ, USAID, ADB, World Bank, IUCN, Oxfam, Transparency International, UK-FCDO, and Water Integrity Network along with public, NGOs, CSOs and the private sectors.
Commissioner of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.
Deputy Director and as Programme Director of Least Developed Countries University Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC)
Prof. Mizan R. Khan has a PhD in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (UMCP), MD, USA. Currently Prof. Khan has two hats at ICCCAD: Deputy Director and as Programme Director of Least Developed Countries University Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC). Prior to joining ICCCAD, he has worked in academia as a Professor for more than 18 years along with working closely with the Government and the development sector of Bangladesh and beyond. During 2015, Prof. Mizan has served as the Director of External Affairs at North South University (NSU). He was also an Adjunct Professor at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba, Canada, during 2009-2013 and had been a Visiting Professor/Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA (Fall 2018); Universite de Poitiers, France (February 2015) & at Brown University, USA (Spring & Fall, 2012; Spring 2013 and Fall 2016). Prof Mizan is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
From August 1981 he served at the Bangladesh Institute of International & Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka, where he was a Research Director from May 1998 through June 2001. Before joining as Chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Management at NSU in early July 2003, he served for four years as UNDP Environment Policy Specialist, working with the Government of Bangladesh. In the early 1990s, he worked for three years as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) of the UMCP, MD. He was Vice Chair of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during 2002-2004. He has been attending the UNFCCC process as the lead negotiator on climate finance with the Bangladesh delegation since 2001. Prof. Khan has a wide range of publications in peer-reviewed journals along with three books on climate change economics & politics published by Routledge and MIT Press since 2014.
Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh
Enamul Huque is the Managing Director and Head of Client Coverage, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) at Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh.
Enamul Huque has been with Standard Chartered Bank since 2001 and brings with him a wealth of industry and network experience. He has successfully managed the largest relationships of the Bank originating bespoke deals over the years. He now leads the Bank’s Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking segment overseeing Local Corporates, Multinationals, Banks and other Financial Institutions. His team has originated numerous landmark transactions in Debt Capital Markets, Loan Syndications, Project & Export Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions and Structured Finance. Under his leadership, the team has originated numerous pioneering transactions in recent times such as the country’s first ever Risk Free Rate linked trade transaction, sustainable trade, sustainable and green bond, blockchain letter of credit and paperless letter of credit.
Enam holds an MBA from Mt. Eliza Business School, Australia. He received various oversees accreditations and certifications from Oxford University and INSEAD. He is married with one son and is a very passionate collector of art.
Climate Change Specialist, UNDP Bangladesh
Maliha lead’s the climate change portfolio at UNDP and has been working on developing a substantive innovative financing portfolio within the Resilience and Inclusive Growth (RIG) cluster; integrating innovation into climate change solutions and governance; and promoting UNDP’s thought leadership on climate change. She has led programs on climate finance governance and provided technical support to ensure that gender equality and human rights are incorporated for the effective delivery of climate change investments.
Maliha has 15 years of experience on climate change adaptation, low carbon resilient development, food security, sustainable food systems, energy systems transformation, sustainable development, and the political economy of development in Bangladesh. Maliha was previously a Research Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, on climate change, food systems, food security in the post covid world, biodiversity, and land-use change.
She has also worked for UNDP Bangladesh as a Climate Finance Expert consultant on the Integrated National Financing Framework for Accelerating Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals contributing to the update of the Development Finance Assessment and was responsible for the formulation of the SDG 13 Financing Strategy.
She was based at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford for over 7 years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and CCAFS South Asia Regional Coordinator, exploring participatory foresight methods to analyze the impact of climate change on food systems, with special attention to synergies and trade-offs in terms of nutritional, environmental and equity outcomes. She has also worked in various policy research institutes including the International Institute of Environment and Development, the Overseas Development Institute, and the Stakeholder Forum in the UK. She started her career with BRAC in Bangladesh.
Maliha has a PhD on the Political Economy of Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Development from SOAS, University of London. Her research examined the opportunities and barriers for low carbon, climate resilient pathways in the energy and agriculture sectors of Bangladesh. She also holds a MSc in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King’s College London and a BSc in Environmental Science.
