Dr. Bazlul Haque Khondker is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Chairman of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM). He holds a PhD degree in Economics and MSc degree in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, England.

He has more than 27 years of experience in the field of development economics and planning. His areas of expertise include analysis of poverty and social protection; micro, meso and macro data analyses for impact assessment and policy formulation; estimating economic cost of violence against women and girls; identification of regional disparities as well as promoting broad based inclusive growth; assessment of the distributional impacts of tax policy (including social protection) reforms using static as well as dynamic macro models as well as micro-simulation models; and assessing the trends in inter-generation equity using the National Transfer Account (NTA) methodology. He has also formulated the technical framework for the Five Year Plans for Bangladesh involving growth projection, macro consistent projection for sectoral growth, employment and poverty. He has constructed Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium Models for several countries for analysis of poverty and income distribution impacts of trade and tax policy reforms. He has produced several reports and published articles, books on social issues including poverty and social protection, economic cost of violence against women and girls, regional disparity, economic and welfare impacts of public policy reforms.

He has presented his analytical works in conferences held in Dhaka, The Hague, Quebec City, Kampala, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Ulan Bator, Singapore, Kathmandu, Colombo, Nairobi, Abuja, Yaoundé, Maseru (Lesotho), Caracas, Mexico City, Hawaii and Boston organised by organisations such as UNDP countries offices, UNDP regional centres in Asian and Africa, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the International Labour Office, East West Centre and the Central Bank of Venezuela. He has also worked in Mongolia (with UNDP/ADB); Indonesia (ILO); Sri- Lanka (UNRBAP); Bhutan (UNDESA); Morocco (the World Bank); Lesotho (UNICEF); Vietnam (UNDP); the Philippines (HelpAge International); Myanmar (HelpAge International); Hawaii (East West Centre); and Venezuela (the Central Bank of Venezuela).