About the Speaker

Professor Saroar is a Bangladeshi academic with over 20 years of experience in university-level teaching and research, the management of collaborative research, and academic and developmental administration. He was awarded his doctorate in climate adaptation from the Regional and Rural Development Planning program of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), in Bangkok, Thailand and has been a Norwegian Government Scholar (NMFA) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

In his current appointment as Professor and Head/Chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning of the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) and specialises in Sustainable Urban Management, he is engaged in research into the broader aspects of Sustainability and Global Change Science, which covers, inter alia, urban sustainability and the development of healthy cities, urban Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and climate adaptation, multi-functional wetland and resilient urban ecosystems, the UN’s urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) programmes, urban poverty, and livelihood and food systems.

He has an extensive and impressive list of professional publications with 27 Scopus/Web of Science indexed, peer-reviewed international publications.

Apart from teaching and research, he has worked for several international organisations and institutions, including UNICEF, UNDP, FAO, WHO, USAID, DFID, GIZ, RVO, and CGIAR.