About me
💼 As a quantitative researcher, I hold a pivotal role as an Economist at the Office of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). With a rich background of over ten years in development and humanitarian contexts, I have served as management consultant, project manager, and researcher, contributing to projects across Asia, Africa, and North America.
📓 I completed my Dual M.A. in Economics/ International Political Economy & Development, from Fordham University with a Fulbright Scholarship. I also completed my undergraduate business degree from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.
📈 My current role focuses on generating comparable socioeconomic statistics for forcibly displaced populations, most notably, the Rohingya refugee population and the forcibly displaced in Kenya.
Ongoing projects:
- Impact of obtaining citizenship among formerly stateless persons.
- Evaluation of cash transfers and psychosocial education among refugees.
My data analytics stack:
- Statistical software: SAS, Stata, Python, R
- Data management: MySQL, SDCMicro (R)
- Data visualization: PowerBI, Tableau, LaTeX/Beamer, Quarto/RevealJS
Recent works
Software - Rahman, Masud (2024). "PYRAMID_CHART: Stata module to generate a population pyramid chart," Statistical Software Components S459350, Boston College Department of Economics. [➡ Read more]
Brief/ Paper - Fix, Jedediah; and Rahman, Masud (2024). "Host Communities and Refugees in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes"; World Bank – UNHCR Joint Data Center. Quarterly Digest on Forced Displacement, Ninth Issue. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. DOI: 10.47053/jdc.080524 [➡ Read more]
Brief/ Paper - Rahman, Masud; Hasegawa, Nodoka; Beltramo, Theresa (2023). "Livelihoods on Bhasan Char"; Briefs from Coxs Bazar Panel Survey on Bhasan Char Baseline - 2022, Second Issue. Dhaka: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [➡ Read more]
Brief/ Paper - Rahman, Masud; Hasegawa, Nodoka; Beltramo, Theresa (2023). "Study Background and Demographics"; Briefs from Coxs Bazar Panel Survey on Bhasan Char Baseline - 2022, First Issue. Dhaka: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [➡ Read more]
Dataset - UNHCR (2022). Bangladesh: Bhasan Car Panel Survey - 2022. DDI DOCUMENT ID: UNHCR_BGD_2022_cbps_anon_data_v2.1 [➡ Read more]
Report - Davis, C Austin; Rahman, Masud; Hasegawa, Nodoka; Cadoni, Paula; Beltramo, Theresa (2022). "The Impact of Financial Assistance through Volunteer Programmes in Coxs Bazar Refugee Camps"; Dhaka: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [➡ Read more]
Blog posts
Compounding misfortunes – refugee women and girls lose even more ground during the COVID-19 pandemic | March 11, 2021[➡Read more]
Innovations in gathering evidence from the Rohingya crisis in Coxs Bazar | January 14, 2021[➡Read more]
COVID-19s impact on Rohingya and Bangladeshi adolescents in Coxs Bazar | December 21, 2020[➡Read more]