Afsana Khan

Afsana is from Chittagong, Bangladesh, but believes she grew up after moving to Dhaka for her undergraduate studies. She is a business graduate who found her calling for development while working as a research assistant on a study on child marriage law in Bangladesh. She has been working on the Rohingya Crisis for 4 years with the World Bank and the U.N. World Food Programme. Having had the unique opportunity of working closely with the largest development and humanitarian actors, her focus had been in making different kinds of data speak to each other. She believes the future of humanitarian and development crisis management lies in informing policy action through innovative, rapid evidence generation pipelines that combine administrative and programmatic data from field operations with academic research. After graduation, she would like to continue working in development research, particularly in education and skill development. Besides dreaming about ending poverty one day, she is a devoted advocate of traditional Bangladeshi food and jamdani sarees.