Rohini Kamal

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Updated: January 2023

Research Fellow Assistant Professor

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 University

 Visiting Research Fellow, 2015- Present

BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)

 Assistant Professor, Environment and Development 2021-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, Earth Institute and NASA GISS

 Research Assistant, 2011-2012

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BRAC Development Institute (BDI)

 Research Assistant, 2009-2011^

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Economic Research Group (ERG)

 Research Assistant, 2009^

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Bryn Mawr College

 Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, 2005- 2008^

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Article

 Kamal R., Islam M.S and Risha A.N. 2022. Perceptions of climate change across different climatic-risk zones in Bangladesh. Agriculture for Development Journal, Tropical Agriculture Association. 44 (8). https://taa.org.uk/product/no-44-winter-2021-agriculture-for-

development-special-issue-commemorating-the-life-and-work-of-hugh-brammer/

 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). 191-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12468

 Kamal, R. (2019). Bangladesh's Energy Policy: Economic, Environmental, and Climate Change Impacts [Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Libraries].

https://doi.org/10.7275/15197519^

 Gallagher, K.P., Kamal, R., Jin, J., Chen, Y., & Ma, X. (2019). Corrigendum to “Energizing development finance? The benefits and risks of China's development finance in the global energy sector” [Energy Policy 122 (2018) 313–321]. Energy Policy. 129. 1424.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.12.031

 Gallagher, K. P., Kamal, R., Jin, J., Chen, Y., & Ma, X. (2018). Energizing development finance?

The benefits and risks of China's development finance in the global energy sector. Energy policy. 122. 313-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.06.009^

 Gallagher, K.P., Kamal, R., Wang, Y., & Chen, Y. (2016). Fueling growth and financing risk: The benefits and risks of China’s development finance in the global energy sector. Global

Economic Governance Initiative. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/23650 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 (Eds.), Southern-led Development Finance (1^st ed.). Routledge.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422829^

 Vicarelli M., Kamal R., and Fernandez M. (2016). Cost Benefit Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Interventions (Eds.), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Book Series: Vol. 42 Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice.

Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43633-3_3^

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Working Paper

 Diwakar, Vidya,. Kamninga, Tony,. Mehzabin, Tasfia., Tumusiime, Emmanuel., Kamal, Rohini., Pabony, Nuha Anoor. (2022). Pathways Out of Ultra-poverty: A Mixed Methods Assessment of Layered Interventions in Coastal Bangladesh (Working Paper No. 109) Chronic Poverty Advisory Network. https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/pathways-out-of-ultra-poverty-a- mixed-methods-assessment-of-layered-interventions-in-coastal-bangladesh/

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 Strengthening Resilience of Climate-induced Migrants in Vulnerable Urban Communities in Khulna and Rajshahi, ongoing^

 Climate Resilience and Graduation: Evidence from Bangladesh, ongoing^

 Improved Early Action Interventions through Precise Targeting, Timely Cash and Early Warning to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Disasters, ongoing^

 Enhancing Safe Drinking Water Security and Climate Resilience through Rainwater Harvesting, ongoing

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 Addressing Resilience Losses of Climate-Induced Migrants in Southwest Bangladesh Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic, ongoing

 Environmental and Economic Impacts of Agrivoltaics in Bangladesh, ongoing

 Enhancing adaptive capacity of the climate vulnerable ultra-poor households affected by COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, ongoing ^

 Economic Recovery of the Climate Migrants and New Poor Living in Climate Vulnerable Urban Low-Income Settlements, ongoing^

 Strengthening recovery capacity of the COVID-19 and climate change affected households through skills training targeting the youth in the families, ongoing

 Empowering Unemployed and Underemployed Youth of the Climate Vulnerable Households through Market Driven Skills and Employment Opportunities, ongoing^

 Strengthening economic recovery capacity of climate-vulnerable new-poor1, especially returnee migrants impacted by COVID-19, ongoing^

 Enhancing economic recovery capacity of COVID-19 affected climate vulnerable farmers engaging in dairy, crop and vegetable farming, ongoing^

 Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities for the Climate Migrants and New poor through Skills Training and Empowerment of Cottage, Micro and Small Enterprises, ongoing

 Global China Initiative, ongoing^

 Evaluation of the Development Impacts of Climate Finance in the CIF, 2022^

 Integrating Ultra poor graduation with multisectoral interventions for sustained poverty escapes in Bangladesh, 2022^

 Managing Climate Migration: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, 2022

 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

 Gobeshona, ICCCAD 2022

 CLEAN Asia Edge NBR workshop 2021

 Chinese Overseas Energy Investments: Implications for Climate and Development Policy Co- convened by the Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University and the Global 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