Invited Lectures and Keynote Presentations
“Improved Wastewater Management: Essential to Achieving Sustainable
Development Goals”
invited keynote
lecture, World Water Day 2017, Bangladesh Water Development Board,
Dhaka, 28 March 2017
“Wastewater Management: From Disposal to Resource Recovery”,
invited keynote lecture, World Water Day 2017, Round Table Discussion of
Daily Bhorer Kagoj, Dhaka, 21 March 2017
“Securing safe water for sustainable development”,
invited keynote lecture, World Water Day 2015, NGO Forum for Public
Health, DPHE Conference Hall, Dhaka, 22 March 2015
“Liberate the peripheral rivers and inland waterbodies from pollution and
encroachment: An urgent call for sustainable living in Dhaka”, invited lecture at the seminar of the Association of BUET Alumni, BUET
Auditorium, Dhaka, 28 September 2013
“Save the peripheral rivers for a sustainable Dhaka: We must act now”, Shaheed Engineers Memorial Lecture, Institution of Engineers Bangladesh,
IEB Chittagong Center, Chittagong, 26 January 2013
“Reversing the process of environmental degradation overcoming social and
engineering challenges: The success story of Hatirjheel”, Bangladesh Country Paper on Engineering Technology and Environment,
Seminar of the federation of engineering institutions of south and
central Asia, FEISCA, IEB, Chittagong, 26 January 2013
“Policies of Bangladesh related to water supply and sanitation”, invited lecture, Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh, IDEB
Bhaban, Dhaka, 01 May 2013
“Water supply, sanitation and hygiene beyond 2015”, invited lecture at the national dialogue on water in the post 2015
development agenda, Global Water Partnership, Bangladesh, CIRDAP
Auditorium, Dhaka, 30 March 2013
“Water gaps in cities and towns: narrowing them down is an urgent call”, invited lecture, World Water Day 2011, NGO Forum for Public Health,
Press Club, Dhaka, 21 March 2011
“Sanitation in Bangladesh: Status, Challenges and Way Forward”, invited lecture, BRAC WASH Program, BRAC Rajendrapur, Dhaka 19 January
2011
“Citizens’ perception on sanitation”, invited lecture at the Grassroots convention, WSSCC-Bangladesh, Dhaka,
19 October 2011
“Buriganga clean-up: Approaches and realities”, invited lecture, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, BAPA, Press Club, Dhaka 18
September 2010
“Environmental and social
safeguard guidelines: power and gas sector in Bangladesh”, invited lecture,
Environmental and Social Safeguard Workshop, World Bank Office,
Dhaka, 08 December 2009
Professional Attachments
Fellow (F - 2200), Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh
Co-Chair, National Working Committee (2015 - 2017) for the
formulation of Institutional and Regulatory Framework for FSM in
Bangladesh, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and
Cooperatives, Government of Bangladesh
Member, Academic Council, Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Member, National Oceanographic and Maritime Institute (NOAMI),
Bangladesh
Chairman, Research Committee, ITN-BUET, 1997 to 2003; August 2013
to date
Member, Programme Committee, IWA Conference on Decentralized
Wastewater Management in Asia, 2011, 2012
Member, Finance Committee, Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2004-2006
Reviewer of technical papers, Journal of the Civil Engineering
Division, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
Member, Editorial Board, Quarterly Newsletter, ITN-Bangladesh,
Dhaka, 1997 to 2003
Member (external), Faculty of Engineering, BUET, nominated by the
Academic Council, BUET, 1995
Member, Research Committee, Institute of Flood Control and
Drainage Research (IFCDR), BUET, 1995.
Member, Editorial Sub-Committee, Preparation of the Bangladesh
National Building Code, Part - viii(d).
Member-Secretary, Board of Post-graduate Studies, Department of
Civil Engineering, BUET, 1989-90.
Member-Secretary, Research and Development Committee, the
Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 1989-90.