He also leads the Working Lives and Social Protection Unit at the Unnayan Onneshan - a centre for research and action on development in Bangladesh. He was trained in development studies at London South Bank University, in social policy and planning at the London School of Economics, and in trade policy and commercial diplomacy at Carleton University. He has published on workers’ rights, skill formation and learning, poverty and injustice, gender and development, and multilateral trading regimes.