Dr. Nabiul Islam, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS will be in Kolkata during 14-15 January, 2011 to attend a symposium on "Interdisciplinary Studies and Promotion of Research on Natural Disaster".

Dr. Binayak Sen, Research Director, BIDS will be in New Delhi on 24-26 November, 2010 to attend a Conference on "The Environment of the Poor in the Context of Climate Change and the Green Economy: Making sustainable Development More Inclusive".

Dr. Zaid Bakht, Research Director, BIDS will be in Bangkok on 8-9 December, 2010 to participate in the "Expert Group Meetings on emerging Issues and challenges and Economic and social Performance in the ESCAP Region".

Dr. Sharifa Begum, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS will be in New Delhi during 25-30 October, 2010 to participate in a two-day meeting on ‘Impact Evaluation’ as part of Global Development Network’s 3ie program.

Dr. Monzur Hossain, Reserach Fellow, BIDS will be in Nagoya University, Japan from October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Development (GSID).

Dr. Binayak Sen, Research Director, BIDS and Dr. S M Zulfiqar Ali, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS will be in UK, on 8-10 September, 2010 to attend the International Conference on "Ten years of war against poverty: what we have learnt since 2000, and what we should do 2010-2020". The conference is...

Dr. Pratima Paul Majumder, Senior Reserach Fellow, BIDS will be in Geneva, Switzerland on 6 September, 2010 to attend a meeting on "Freedom of Association and Collective Rights". The meeting is hosted by the ILO.

Mr. Zabid Iqbal, Research Associate, BIDS has left BIDS on August 26, 2010 to pursue Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University, U.S.A.