OSUN Faculty

Syed Hashemi

Syed M Hashemi Professor, School of General Education, Brac University Syed M Hashemi has a long career in teaching, research, and developing 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 the Brac Development Institute and chaired the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at BRAC University. He spent many years at the World Bank, focusing on financial inclusion of the poorest and ensuring a social performance bottom line in microfinance. He also co-designed and co-headed a successful multi-country program to develop new pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty (the graduation approach). Hashemi’s research and writings encompass issues of extreme poverty, women’s empowerment, and NGO development strategies. He is currently Professor at the School of General Education at Brac University.