Sheikh Touhidul Haque, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Economics Development cluster at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University.
After completing his doctoral degree, he taught Economics and Statistics courses as a visiting/part-time faculty member at different US institutions. Prior to his doctoral degree, he served in the Bangladesh civil service. In his last appointment, he worked as a senior assistant secretary in the Finance Division where he investigated the impact of private and public investment on the growth rate of Bangladesh. He also used the currency demand approach to estimate the extent of Bangladesh’s shadow economy from 1973 to 2008. During his tenure in Bangladesh Civil Service, he was selected to participate in training on financial programming and policies organized by the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. His primary research interests are in labor economics, public economics, and topics related to applied microeconomics.
Dr Haque earned his PhD in Economics from Northern Illinois University, USA. He also completed his M.Sc. in Applied Probability and Statistics from the same institution.
