Peerzadi Rumana Hossain
Position

Scientist

Dr. Peerzadi Rumana Hossain is a Climate Change Research Scientist with WorldFish, Bangladesh and South-Asia Office. She is leading the project “Capacitating farmers and fishers to manage climate risks in South Asia” that focuses on climate information and advisory services for fishers and farmers in Bangladesh and India. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences emphasizing climate change impacts and adaptation pathways, and MSc in Forestry. She has ten years of professional experiences in multi-disciplinary research environment from the ecological, social and economic dimensions of ecosystem based natural resource management. She worked at USDA (Chittagong) during 2008-2009, at BCAS (Dhaka) during 2010-2012 and at INTEGRA LLC (Washington DC) in 2016 on a wide range of projects which were also focused on climate change, climate change induced impacts and climate resilient environmental systems. She loves to explore the potentials of nature to improve the quality of life on earth.