Leadership
United States and Canada
- Co-founder and senior executive of non-profit and for-profits focused on digital transformation of governments and societies, and digital divides between the haves and have-nots.
- Co-founder and senior executive of for-profits focused on harnessing technology for efficiency gains of large multinational corporations.
- Strategic advisor to globally reputed philanthropies such as Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Rockefeller Foundation, among others
Bangladesh
- Founder and Policy Advisor of Aspire to Innovate (a2i), UNDP and Government of Bangladesh’s flagship Digital Bangladesh programme, Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Office, and ICT Ministry
- Member of Prime Minister’s National Task Force ( 2009-2024)
- Member of Education Minister’s National Blended Education Task Force (2021-2024)
- Member of ICT Minister’s National Data Analytics Task Force
- Member of Cabinet Secretary’s National Steering Committee on Civil Registry and Vital Statistics (2014-2024)
- Member of Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary’s Domestic Network Coordination Committee
- Co-founder of FinLab Bangladesh
Global
- Deputy Champion of World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance mobilizing global high-level collective action in improving education, healthcare and financial services for 1 billion people (2021)
- Programme Committee Member of UN World Data Forum (2022-2024)
- Co-chair of World Economic Forum’s Regional Action Group for Digital Transformation (2021)
- Advisory Board Member of Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (formerly Alliance for Affordable Internet)-2020-2022)
- Steering Committee Member of WEF and UNICEF’s Knowledge and Info Network for Digital Learning and Education (2021-2022)
- Member of Rockefeller Foundation and Brookings Institute’s 17 Rooms (2021-2023)
- Co-founder and Board Member of South-South Network for Public Service Innovation (SSN4PSI) (2017-2024)
- Co-founder of South-Asia Civil Registration Network (CR8) (2018-2024)
- Co-founder of Future of Work Lab with UNDP and UNCDF (2021-2024)
- Technical Working Group Member of Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Identity Systems, Alan Turing Institute (2021-2024)
- Co-founder, funder and manager of several for-profit and non-profit organizations in the US and Bangladesh
- Regular speaker/moderator in international conferences and an international writer on public service innovation and reform, digital financial inclusion, civil registration and digital identity management, SDGs, youth and community empowerment, educational transformation, digital public infrastructure, digital public goods, public-private partnerships, and South-South Cooperation