Mahtab Uddin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka and a Research Director (honorary) at SANEM. Mahtab has a bachelor’s and master’s in economics from the University of Dhaka, where he topped his class in both exams. He is a Commonwealth PhD scholar at the University of Manchester.

Mahtab has been extensively engaged in academic and policy research for almost a decade. He has worked with the ADB, the Asia Foundation, Action Aid, FCDO, IOM, IDRC, ILO, UNDESA, UNDP, and World Vision Bangladesh, amongst others, on projects mostly related to the labour market, migrations, remittances, poverty and inequality, and social safety net issues. He has attended many conferences and workshops in China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the UK, and the USA.

Mahtab started his career as a Programme Associate at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in February 2015 and later moved to SANEM as a Research Associate in July 2015. Later, he joined the University of Dhaka as a Lecturer of Economics in 2016 and was promoted to Assistant Professor of Economics in 2021.