Syed Hashemi
BRAC UniversitySyed M Hashemi has a long career in teaching, research and managing programs for the poor. He taught Economics at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh, directed an anti-poverty research program at Grameen Trust, and set up a development institute and chaired the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at BRAC University. He spent nine years with CGAP, at the World Bank, focusing on financial inclusion of the poorest and ensuring a social performance bottom line in microfinance. He also designed and headed a successful multi-country program to develop new pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty through integrating safety nets, livelihood activities and financial services. Hashemi continued to work on an expanded agenda of Economic Inclusion as a Senior Advisor to the Partnership for Economic Inclusion, at the World Bank. He has recently joined BRAC University as Professor at the School of General Education.
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