Masud Rahman Portfolio

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💼 I am a quantitative researcher, currently working as an Economist at the Office of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). With more than ten years of experience conducting research and managing projects in international development and humanitarian contexts, I have worked in various locations 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 and conducting experimental evaluations.

Ongoing projects:

  1. Impact of obtaining citizenship among formerly stateless persons.
  2. Evaluation of cash transfers and psychosocial education among refugees.

My data analytics stack:

  1. Statistical software: SAS, Stata, Python, R
  2. Data management: MySQL, SDCMicro (R)
  3. Data visualization: PowerBI, Tableau, LaTeX/Beamer, Quarto/RevealJS
Masud Rahman

Recent works

Brief/ Paper - Rahman, Masud; Okute, Samwel Ochieng; Fix, Jedediah Rooney (October 2024). "From Stateless to Citizens: the journey of the Shona community in Kenya (English)", Nairobi: UNHCR, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24386.59847 [➡ Go to Full Text]

Software - Rahman, Masud (2024). "PYRAMID_CHART: Stata module to generate a population pyramid chart", Statistical Software Components S459350, Boston College Department of Economics. [➡ Go to Full Text]

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 [➡ Go to Full Text]

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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]