Rohini Kamal
Research Fellow
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) BRAC UNIVERSITY
Email:[email protected]
FIELDS OF INTEREST Energy
Environment Climate Change
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
EMPLOYMENT
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
● Research Fellow and Lead environmental and climate change research, 2021- Present Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), Boston
● Research Fellow, 2015- Present University of Massachusetts Amherst
● Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Microeconomics, 2012 - 2015 Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh
● Research Assistant, 2012
Urban Climate Change Research Network
● Research Assistant, 2011-2012 BRAC Development Institute (BDI)
● Research Assistant, 2009-2011 Economic Research Group (ERG)
● Research Assistant, 2009
Bryn Mawr College
● Teaching Assistant,Department of Physics, 2005- 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Article
● Ray R. and Kamal R. 2019.Can South-South Cooperation Compete? The Development Bank of Latin America and the Islamic Development Bank. Development and Change. 50 (1)
● Gallagher K., Kamal R., Jin J., Chen Y., and Ma X. 2018. Energizing Development Finance? The benefits and risks of China’s development finance in the global energy sector. (122), 313-321
Book/ Book Chapter
Kamal R. and Ray R. (2020) “A connected and sustainable future- comparing lessons from Southern-led regional banks and networks, CAF and the Islamic Development Bank compared” Southern-led
Development Finance, Routledge
● Vicarelli M., Kamal R., and Fernandez M. 2016.Cost Benefit Analysis for
Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Interventions. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Book Series Vol. 42
RESEARCH PROJECTS
● Climate Forecasting in India: Using SSTs and SLPs to Predict Water Deficit and Rainfall in Regional India, 2012
● Climate Forecasting: Climate change impacts on coffee production in Mexico, 2012
● A Case Study of Agriculture and Water Supply in Adean Peruvian Communities, 2011 SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
● Chinese Overseas Energy Investments: Implications for Climate and Development Policy Co-convened by the Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University and theGlobal Development Policy Center, Boston University, 2018
● BEYOND BRETTON WOODS: Complementarity and Competition in the International Economic Order, Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, 2017
● Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Strategy Meeting, 2015 HONORS AND ACCOLADES
● Graduated in Physics with honours and thesis “Exciting Rydberg States of Rubidium Atoms”
passed with distinction. 2008
