Khandker Wahedur Rahman
Associate Member Department of Economics, Post Doctoral Researcher
Oxford Martin School
Khandker Wahedur Rahman is a senior postdoctoral researcher for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development at the University of Oxford. He is an applied microeconomist with a broad interest in development and labour economics. He focuses on the empirical microeconomic analysis of development policies, social welfare analysis, and causal inference. His current research explores human capital and productivity – often having the role of gender, norms, information, and technology as cross-cutting themes.
Rahman is also affiliated with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University as a visiting senior research fellow. In the past, he has worked with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Swisscontact Bangladesh in various capacities.
Rahman has completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. He also holds an MPP from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
