Mohammad Syful Hoque

I am an economist with economic credentials, and highly experienced & trusted management consulting leader with strong research, policy and advocacy insights, leadership and communication skills to engage with in-house staffs and clients, and with the global development community, and in meaningful dialogue. I notably took part on 70+ government and international donor funded programs in both public and private sectors and have 15 years of experience in designing, delivering & assessing development, policy and intervention programs focus on South Asia. Currently for last 3 years, I am working as a consultant (STC) for the Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia (SARCE) at the World Bank and managing a range of analytical and operational projects and World Bank commissioned surveys in Bangladesh from scratch – from designing, budgeting, research input to implementation, coordination and dissemination. I have to juggle competing demands on my time from several in-house economists of the department of Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Global Practice, and Equity, growth and Equitable Growth, Finance & Institutions (EFI) plus ad-hoc research requests on various issues that come from other departments. The leadership and management experience that I have gathered here ranging from hiring practices and assembling teams (firms and professionals) to implementing research, survey and projects will be key to growth of any international development organization. I successfully led, created, scaled, evaluated, implemented, and optimized many programs funded by international development banks and donor organizations that had core components related to public and private sector development, sustainable development issues and most of the SDG targets. I have huge experience in policy & advisory work, capacity building and thematic research, writing reports and policy notes. My unique combination of expertise and experience helped me to get compelling offers of assignments - agriculture to industrial development, addressing socio-economic problems to vulnerability and inequality, Infrastructure development to technology adoption, public health to public finance, investment to trade policy - both research and program based, and it suited my aspirations of creating impact across boundaries, sometimes being an economist, a researcher, or a development practitioner. In all of my assignments, I easily managed full access to government and international donor community, research and development banks and partners, local implementers, investor and beneficiaries and successfully engaged them for intended outcomes. I directly worked with investors and national bodies for leveraging resources for investment opportunities, prepared business, investment and financing plan/models for national institutes, private companies and nation-wide large programs. Working with a vast number of stakeholders in both public and private sectors, leading several research firms and plethora of teams, I learned about the business models, culture of values, vision, and commitments of international development organizations to assist their employees in achieving their goals as well as the organization’s. I have worked on impact evaluation research (Experimental (RCT), and measuring social impact, livelihoods, and economic development in agriculture, health & nutrition, wash, & solid waste management- faecal sludge & plastic waste.I have profound influence over research and analytics both inside and outside field of economics, finance and development and has vast experience in program design, implementation, evaluation, M&E, MRM, MEL frameworks, conducting large nationwide surveys. I am tech-freak and an incomparable expert on survey and data analysis and expert in using ODK & Survey CTO mobile/tablet based surveys, Base-Mid-End-line surveys, FGD, KII), STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS, EVIEWS, MS Excel. In a nutshell, I developed intellectual and analytical foundations to provide thought leadership to the internal and external development community, institutionally and individually, to leverage research and analytic resources, human resources and logistics to ensure quality programs with intended goals and results. Sector Coverage (so far) – Public & Private Sector Development- Public-private partnership and coordination, Private Investment & Business Climate Advisory, Institutional business, Capacity Building of GOs, business & trade institutions, their resources and functions, Public Finance, market and financing study, Local governance issues (Water, Energy, Waste management- plastic and solid waste, FSM, sewerage and sanitation systems, STP etc.) Sustainable Development (SDG Targets) - Poverty, Livelihood, Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, and Wash & Energy Industry, Business, Market & Value Chain - Industrial environment, compliance issues, employment, labor rights and , Financial Risk and performance, Industry and Market Value Chain, Manufacturing & MSME firms addressing jobs and productivity, technology and sustainability, industrial applications, production eco-systems, compliance and management practices, productivity, competitiveness etc. Energy, Infrastructure & Environment: Renewable energy (SHS), energy efficient appliance, Special Economic Zone -SEZ Development, Economic analysis for Port Development etc., Dhaka Sanitation improvement plan Clients (so far) – Development Banks and European Commission: World Bank (WBG), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), European Commission Bangladesh Delegation Government bodies: Ministry of Finance, Dhaka South City Corporation, Payra Port Authority- GoB, Universities & Research Org: Tufts University-USA, Center for Development Research (ZEF)-University of Bonn, KIET-Korea, John Hopkins University-USA, Columbia University-USA, Innovation Poverty Action (IPA) etc. International NGOs & Development Partners: BRAC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Water Aid, CARE International-UK, CLASP International-USA, Ajinomoto Foundation (AFF), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JAICA), Concern Worldwide, Japan development Institute (JDI), Tobacco Free Kids (TFK) etc. CUTS International, Monusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Alliance Forum Foundation (AFF), JAPAN - Ajinomoto International Cooperation Network for Nutrition & Health Management Consulting Firms: PwC-UK, DFID-UK, ICF International-UK, Transports & Infrastructures Expertise Group EEIG (TIEG- C&M-Consulting & Management Ltd, TAS Euro projects- Belgium. Market & Business Clients: Local conglomerates, Industries, Trade bodies, Business associations, international private businesses, JETRO, Sumitomo Corporation - Japan, Morinaga-Japan, East Coast group, and Berger Pains, etc.