Dr. Md. Nadiruzzaman is currently working as a Research Fellow under CLICCS – B3 work package at Hamburg University. He also affiliates at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) (Bangladesh), Humanitarian Advisory Group (Australia) and Flowminders (Sweden). Prior to this job, he was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Management at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). By training Nadir is a human geographer with an MA and PhD from Durham University, where he problematised traditional knowledge framing of cyclone, and demonstrated how marginality in everyday life constrains peoples’ resilience to withstand extreme events. Since obtaining his PhD, Nadir has been involved with several large research projects across the continent and expanded his works on migration and big data, energy and poverty, climate finance, ecosystem services and disaster, urban climate change, livelihood security and so on. He looked through the lenses of political ecology and strived to understand politics of contesting knowledge framing. He held two post-doctoral fellowships, one at the University of Exeter, supervised by Prof. Neil Adger (IPCC AR5 Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 13: Human Security) and, the other, in a science-to-action collaborative project between ICCCAD, UNU-EHS and MRF (http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article/read/gibika), hosted at ICCCAD and supervised by Dr. Saleemul Huq (IPCC AR5 Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 14: Adaptation Needs and Options).
Dr. Nadir has expanded his work in development sector and tried to bridge the gap between theory and development practices through his work. He worked as a Director – Learning, Research and Knowledge Management in a USAID funded food for peace (FFP) programme. He supported the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh in climate sensitive budget coding for twenty ministries. He provided consultancy services to World Vision, DFID, UNDP, CRS, Save the Children, Hunger for Humanity, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Oxford Policy Management and several other organisations. He has also extensively published in several apex journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Climate Change and Geoforum. Nadir’s academic works could be viewed at https:// uni-hamburg.academia.edu/MdNadiruzzaman.
