About
BDPolicyLab is an independent, AI-augmented policy research institute. It produces rigorous, data-driven analysis of the questions that decide Bangladesh's next decade: economic development, trade and industrial policy, the climate and energy transition, governance, and spatial inequality.
Credibility is the product. Every number traces to a primary source: Bangladesh Bank, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Finance, the IMF, the World Bank, and the original survey and administrative records behind them. There are no guessed figures, no rounded-from-memory statistics, and no fabricated citations. Where a figure cannot be verified, it is removed rather than invented.
The lab pairs human judgement with a purpose-built research stack: an open data house of primary sources, a fifty-sector input-output simulator for policy scenarios, and a digital twin of the Bangladeshi state. AI accelerates the drafting and the search; the analysis, the sourcing, and the conclusions are owned and checked.
BDPolicyLab takes no position for hire. Its only commitment is to forward-looking analysis that would survive a hostile review, and to publishing the method alongside the number.
Team
Assistant Professor of Economics, Waseda University. Former researcher at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Labor economics, development economics, applied microeconomics.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee. Former Deputy Director, Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank). Trade policy, financial regulation, agricultural economics.