NOTABLE ALUMNI

After completing Bachelors in Environmental Science with a magna cum laude, Asif pursued Masters in Sustainable Energy and Technoloy Management. Currently, he is studying Computer Programming at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. He has been working as a freelance web and software developer for the past year.

Syed Tasfiq Mahmood is working as the Deputy Manager: Partnership and Grants Management, Climate change Programme at BRAC. Previously, he worked as a Coordinator for the Policy Support Programme at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). He is also engaged with UN-Women: Bangladesh as the National Consultant (Photographer). Currently, Tasfiq is pursuing his Post Grad Diploma on Professional Photography from Pathshala: South-Asian Media Institute. In 2018, this SESM alumni worked with Royal Geographical Society, UK as a photographer and also got his photographs published in the New York Times.

Tasfiq can be reached at tasfiqmahmood@gmail.com

Shahnoor graduated with an MSc in Environmental Management from IUB and is now currently a PhD Fellow at Water Governance Chair Group, UNESCO-IHE Institute of Water Education. She was also the winner of the Florida Earth Young Scholar Award in 2016. 

Krishty worked for the World Bank after she graduated from SESM at IUB and has earned a Master’s Degree from University of Ottawa, Canada. She is currently living in Canada. 

Krishty can be contacted at krisreza@gmail.com

Shahriar Caesar Rahman has completed his B.Sc. in Environmental Science from School of Environmental Science and Management at Independent University, Bangladesh and is now Chief Executive Officer, Creative Conservation Alliance. Shahriar Caesar Rahman works in the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, which is part of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. In this hostile environment, entrenched in complex insurgent issues, he has conducted biodiversity surveys in the area which resulted in the most comprehensive wildlife survey done in the region. He documented 26 globally-threatened species persisting in the Sangu Reserve Forest. Shahriar also discovered the critically endangered Arakan forest turtle and keeled box turtle for the first time in Bangladesh, as well as rediscovered populations of the largest tortoise in Asia: the Asian giant tortoise, which was thought to be extirpated from Bangladesh.