Our Staffs

Joyanta Roy
Mr. Roy leads Research & ICT in CBSG. He is the Chairman of the organization. He is a postgraduate in Statistics with major in Econometrics from the University of Dhaka and is a frontline Research and ICT specialist in Bangladesh. Educated and trained in USA, Canada and Bangladesh, he held key positions in various development organizations including PRIP Trust, Aga khan Foundation, Enfants Du Monde, RDRS in planning, and monitoring and evaluation functions for more than two decade. His key competency areas also include planning, monitoring and information management for development and non-profit sectors. He has been trained on Result Based Management at CIDA (CANADA) by FIT. He regularly provides consultancy in overseas as well as in country on his area of expertise. His international consultancies include Uzbekistan and Tazakistan of Central Asia, India etc. His professional skill ranges in result based management and reporting, Project Cycle Management, Financial and personnel management, Project Appraisal and Project Design, System Design Management Information System, Budgetary Control System, Conducting Survey and Research, Data analysis and Empirical Studies.

Obaidur Rahman
Mr. Rahman is the Advisor of CBSG. He is an MBA by training and is one of the frontline Organizational Development (OD) and programmatic management specialists in Bangladesh. Educated and trained in USA, Canada, India and Bangladesh, Mr. Rahman takes pride in his excellent track record in facilitating conducting policy development workshops, and other consulting tools in the areas of organizational and programmatic development, and on various developmental issues for the last 16 years. He has facilitated organization development processes including strategic management, reorganization, policy formulation and HRD training for a large number of NGOs, Government agencies and development partners in Bangladesh and overseas. He has held key positions in various development organizations for more than a decade. He regularly provides consultancy in overseas as well as in Bangladesh on his area of expertise. His international consultancies include India, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Cambodia.

Mr. Shaheen Hasnat
Mr. Shaheen Hasnat is working as a Senior Consultant at CBSG. He is a university graduate and a professionally certified chartered accountant. Prior, he was the Bangladesh Country Manager of John Hopkins University. He worked as Operations Manager of USAID`s flag-ship health program. He was heading the Finance and Administration Unit of PRIP Trust. Mr. Hasnat also served a number of reputed non-profit organizations in key capacities of Personnel and Financial Management including CARITAS and North South University, Bangladesh. During his 20 years career as Finance and Administration professional, he received professional training on managing income generating projects from the Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, UK and on computerized accounting using AcPAC from the Foundation for International Training, Toronto, Canada. As a short-term consultant, he undertook several professional assignments with Norwegian Embassy, Jute Works Bangladesh and Families for Children, UK etc.Mr. Hasnat has been very instrumental in introducing Finance and Administration systems and is playing a key role in CBSG`s management.

Mr. Hasibu Karim
Mr. Hasibul Karim is the Lead-Data Analysis of CBSG. He has been working as a core team member and mostly as facilitators and study coordinator of CBSG survey and research projects. He has a master`s on social science from Jahangirnagar University, and later did master's in health economics from the University of Dhaka. He works sevaral years in Icddr,b, and with Chemonics International USA. He is a genuine research professional with core focus applied research in development sector.

Dr. Rita Sen, Ph.D
Dr. Sen, Intermittent Lead Gender Analysis and Social Research, is a senior team member of CBSG. She did her masters in sociology from the University of Chittagong and later obtained Ph.D on women empowerment from Kolkata University in 1991. He is an eminent sociologist with strong background and hand on skill in social research, gender analysis and survey. She worked for more than two decades with different national and International NGOs including BRAC, PRIP Trust and World Fish. He has strong exposure in human rights including child and workers’ rights areas. Dr. Sen led over 20 social studies and has 20publications in her credit. She has worked for gender main-streaming in many development projects supported by DfID and USAID in Bangladesh. She often render training on research methodology and gender audit for development

Mrs. Musahida
Mrs. Musahida is a Finance & Admin Manager of CBSG. She has been working at CBSG since 2019. Her core functional area is finance and admin division. She holds professional degree in research management and data collection. She worked with Icddr,B, Mitra & Associates and Brac University in number of research and study project, she is ingenguinious in field research management and data processing. She has strong skill in mobile based application development for data collection and data entry.

HM Simon
Mr. Simon is the research officer of CBSG. He completed his Masters in Statistics from the Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR). He takes pride in performing research projects with a deep attention on Survey and Data Management. He also has research experience of four years on various socio-demographic aspects. He has professional expertise on designing and developing research tools and relational databases for collecting data, processing information, performing analysis by using various statistical analysis software programs and has conducted excellent research in this regard.

Md. Al-amin Shishir
Mr. Shishir is presently positioned as a Development Manager and he has been in service at CBSG since 2013. He has completed BBA and MBA in Accounting & Information Systems from Islamic University. He has excellent exposure in research & survey, project coordination and training facilitation. Likewise, he has good command in preparing reports, presentations and proposals. He has received several trainings regarding his area of work. Mr. Shishir has successfully performed his role in several assignments in different projects of MoICT, SDC, SOMO, MDF, MI, USAID etc.

Rina Prova Dewry
Ms Dewry is an Intermittent Consultant of CBSG research wing since 2016. She completed her post-graduation degree in Economics. She has over 3 years of experience on managing Survey and successfully coordinated many surveys and research projects. She is well convergent on data collection monitoring and quality control systems at the field level. She is very much capable to coordinate local authority and implementing partners, assist recruiting appropriate Interviewers, prepare survey tools both hardware and software, prepare manuals for Interviewers and supervisors, conduct field (pilot) test and prepare relevant documentation ,coordinate with inter and intra field teams, lead listing and data collection team. She is skilled in managing qualitative and quantitative data collection. She works various districts including hard to reach areas. Besides, she is skilled in designing and developing electronic survey tools such as SurveyCTO, CSpro, ODK and online monitoring. Data analysis on MS Access, MS Excel, SPSS, and, STATA.

Sushanta Kumar Das
Sushanta Kumar Das has been working at CBSG as a Research consultant since 2017. He completed Masters in applied statistics in 1987 and immediate after started his research career in research and evaluation division of BRAC. In 2001, he joined in SMC as field research manager, and in 2008 he moved to FIVBD, where he worked in various capacities in monitoring, evaluation learning cell. He has contributed to a number of survey and research projects in CBSG. His area of expertise includes research design to managing field implementation. One of his strength areas is field research management.

Anowar Kabir
Mr. Kabir is the Software Engineer and IT incharge of CBSG. He is a Computer Engineer and IT professional with almost two years of work experience. She holds a BSC degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Daffodil International University (DIU). He has excellent command in web designing (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), Web development (PHP, Codeigniter), Application development, Software design & development and database design (MySQL).She is expert in designing and developing survey tools using CSPro, SurveyCTO and ODK applications. He is also skilled in data analysis through MS Excel, MS Access, SPSS and STATA.
How We Serve
Organizational Development
CBSG takes the Organizational Development and Change Management approach to institutional capacit...
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