Dr A K M Nazrul Islam is acurrently working as a deputy director with the newly established BIDS Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), an affiliated institute of higher studies under the University of Dhaka. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka (since 2022); the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies (IDMVS) of the University of Dhaka (since 2018); and the School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) (since 2014). Prior to BGSE, he worked as an associate professor in environmental economics and also as the Founding Coordinator/Head of the Environmental and Resource Economics Programme at Dhaka School of Economics (DScE) for about 12 years. Dr. Islam also has the experience of working with the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, as a research fellow (2009-2011) and Oxfam GB as a research and policy expert (2011-2012). He was one of the directors on the Board of BDBL Securities Limited (BSL), a state-owned enterprise, for the period of 2013 to 2017. Dr. Nazrul Islam completed a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Delhi in 2001 under the prestigious ICCR scholarship, an MA in Economics in 2003, and a PhD in Economics (Environmental Economics) in 2009 from the Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), India, under the Government of India Fellowship Scheme (ICCR). Dr. Islam is a trained environmental economist with experience in both teaching and research in areas including climate change, economic valuation of non-marketed environmental goods and services, energy, agriculture, water resources, and trade, among others. His teaching interests include microeconomics, macroeconomics, environmental and resource economics, and climate and disaster economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, while the economics of the environment, climate change, agriculture, and energy issues are his major research areas. Under his direct supervision, one PhD student and about two dozen master's-level students have successfully defended their dissertations. Dr. Islam has over a decade and a half of long consultancy experiences working with projects funded by the World Bank, UNDP, UNESCAP, ADB, AFD, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance, among others. He has published a number of research articles in refereed journals and edited volumes from home and abroad. Dr. Islam also was the Associate Executive Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal on Environment and Development (ISSN: Print ISSN 1023-7895) for about 8 years.