Muntasir Tahmeed Chowdhury

Muntasir has been working in local strategic consulting landscape for the better part of last decade with his Research and consulting Start-Ups founded at the early stages of his professional life. He has served clients across corporate and development verticals with regard to conducting business research, designing inclusive value chains and crafting pro-poor intervention projects. He has an expansive footprint on the construction sector thanks to his works with Oxfam on a diagnostic study on the construction sector supply chain, with Tradexcel on a business feasibility assessment for expanding a new SBU among others. He has a working relationship with high ranking government officials in the Construction and Infrastructure sector. He has conducted numearous industry assessment, supply chain analyses, value chain assessment to create product roll out strategy, service business blueprints etc. He has been the advisor for BASIS, BACCO, eCAB leadership team in launching key policies and sector reports for ICT and ITeS sectors.

Muntasir has graduated from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka (IBA-Dhaka University) majoring in Marketing with distinctive course work on research methodology. His education from one of the best business schools in South Asia coupled with decade long experience of working with bottom-of-the pyramid consumer cohorts; has enabled him to become an off-the-grid business model mapper. He has been involved in a series of assignments aimed at systemic, structural changes in market value chain and ensured inclusive businesses and supply chains by connecting large enterprises with micro-small enterprises. He has been working with the large local conglomerates in conducting comprehensive project feasibility studies with regard to initiation of new strategic business units. Muntasir is a Cox’s Bazar native with proficiency in local dialect and a long-standing exposure to Rohingya communities, which has enabled him to interact directly with both host and Rohingya communities as an ethnographic researcher in humanitarian context. He has been part of a number of livelihood/IGA/economic diversification assignments commissioned by development partners, UN agencies and INGOs operating in humanitarian landscape.