Over 28 years of work experience as Resettlement / Social Safeguards / Indigenous People / Gender Specialist (International) with a PhD and a Master's in Social Science from the University of Lucknow and a Bachelor in Social Sciences from Aligarh Muslim University and numerous countries assignments in Southeast, Central and South Asia and Africa, especially Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Uganda, India, Kyrgyzstan, Zambia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Egypt, Nepal, Georgia, Cambodia, Yemen, Nigeria, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Liberia

Key areas of technical expertise: 

+ Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
+ Involuntary Resettlement (IR) and Indigenous People (IP)
+ Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARP)
+ Indigenous People’s Plan (IPP)
+ Gender Action Plan (GAP)
+ Poverty and Social Analysis (PSA)
+ Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM)
+ Stakeholders Consultation and Participation Strategies
+ Livelihood Restoration Plan (LRP)
+ Preliminary Design, Feasibility Studies and Detailed Engineering Design
+ Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) and Project Management Consultant (PMC)
+ Project Performance Monitoring System (PPMS) and Benefits Monitoring and Evaluation (BME)

Negotiations and compensation for losses of land, buildings, structures, other built-up properties, crops, trees, business losses, land property and tenure rights, socioeconomic satisfaction of people being resettled and rehabilitated, human trafficking management plan, labour management plan, occupational health and safety (OHS), STIs/STDs/HIV/AIDS, GBV, SEA, SH, VAC and IFC labour and working conditions and core labour standards.

Compliance with labour laws, child labour, Indigenous people, ethnic minorities, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), women empowerment, training, capacity building in multi-sectoral projects on transportation, highways, expressways, roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, metro rails (MRTS), power, energy, high voltage power transmission lines, substations and distribution networks, airports, ports, river ports, tourism, smart cities, water resources, irrigation, dams, flood recovery, pipeline route selection, water supply, sewerage, wastewater, urban drainage, solid waste management, and city development plan, etc. for the ADB, World Bank, JICA, MCC, EU, EIB, KfW, GIZ, AfDB, IsDB, Abu Dhabi Fund, and IFC standards projects

Recipient of several outstanding papers recognition from professional associations, and societies and meritorious service award at ICT for excellence