Prashanta Tripura, Country Director, is an academic turned development professional with a combined professional experience of thirty-four years, including over sixteen years in senior management positions in international development organizations like CARE, UNDP and HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation prior to joining The Hunger Project Bangladesh in November 2024. Having studied cultural anthropology at both undergraduate and graduate levels in universities in the USA, he joined the teaching faculty at the Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, where he taught for ten years while maintaining an academic interest in poverty and social marginalization with some voluntary association with organizations that dealt with such issues. Later, in 2001, Prashanta turned into a fulltime development professional by joining CARE Bangladesh, where he worked for over seven years in different roles. Subsequently, he served in a senior management position in UNDP’s Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility for three years, after which from 2012 to 2018, he was engaged in independent consultancies alongside part-time teaching at BRAC University and Independent University, Bangladesh. Most recently, prior to joining The Hunger Project as Project Director of Multi-stakeholder Initiative for Peace and Stability in November 2024, he had worked as Project Director of Aparajita: Political Empowerment of Women, Phase III at HELVETAS from October 2018 to June 2024.
While Prashanta joined The Hunger Project Bangladesh (THPBD) in November 2024 as Project Director of Multi-stakeholder Initiative for Peace and Stability (MIPS), following the retirement of Dr. Badiul Majumdar as THPBD’s Country Director, he served in an additional role as the organization’s Interim Country Director from 1 January to 31 May 2025. Subsequently, from 1 June 2025 onward, he assumed the role of the Country Director of The Hunger Project Bangladesh.
Swapan Kumar Saha, Finance and Administration Director, has been with The Hunger Project-Bangladesh since 1995. His 34 years of professional experience in finance, accounts, administration, audit and taxation help him oversee the finance and program budgeting of The Hunger Project-Bangladesh
Prior to joining the organization, Swapan worked as a senior finance and administration officer with Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (now Sight Savers International), a UK based INGO promoting the social inclusion of blind children and adults. Later, he joined Assistant for Blind Children (ABC), another leading national NGO, as Manager of Accounts and worked there for three years.
Jamirul Islam, Director-Training & Empowerment, has been involved with The Hunger Project as a team leader and capacity building expert since November of 2004. He. brings more than 21 years of professional experience in local government and community development, gender analysis, training curriculum development, team building and knowledge management.
Prior to joining The Hunger Project-Bangladesh, he was a Program Coordinator of Human Development and Training at PROSHIKA—a nonprofit organization focused on sustainable development, collective organization, and empowerment of communities living in conditions of poverty. He attained a Master of Social Science degree in Economics from Chittagong University.
Dr Nazmun Nahar Nur (Lubna), she is the Deputy Program Director (DPD) of The Hunger Project Bangladesh since August 2023. She is particularly heading the FCDO funded program operation of Multi-Stakeholder Initiative for Peace and Stability (MIPS) project across the country. Dr. Lubna earned around 23 years’ professional experience in the Development and Humanitarian sectors. As a Humanitarian Deputy Director of Save the Children International (SCI), she had overseen all the sectoral projects. Being a Programme and Policy Officer of United Nations World Food Programme (UN-WFP), she played a vital role for the USAID funded Development Food Assistance program. Both in Bangladesh and India, as a Programme Manager of NETZ Partnership for Development & Justice, Dr. Lubna had magnificently coordinated the EC funded cross-border livelihood projects, as well BMZ funded core volunteers’ programme of the organization. She worked as Environmental Specialist in ACDI/VOCA and coordinated environmental issues of the three components- Livelihood, Health & Nutrition and Disaster management of PROSHAR project under Title II AID-FFP, MYAP. As a scientific officer, she worked for the DFID funded CBFM-II project in DoF, under MoF&L.
Dr. Lubna studied in Mymensingh Girls’ Cadet College (MGCC) and Bangladesh Agricultural University and awarded Ph.D. from the same university. She has a good numbers of research publications in the national and international journals.
Shashanka Baran Roy is the Senior Program Manager and leading the Youth Mobilization Unit since March 2022. With over 22 years of experience in the development sector, he brings extensive expertise in civil society and youth engagement, project and partner NGO management, training facilitation, policy advocacy, writing, and documentation.
Shashanka holds a Master’s in Governance Studies from the University of Dhaka and completed both undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy at Jahangirnagar University.
He began his career in 2003 with The Hunger Project Bangladesh, gaining experience in grassroots mobilization and national-level programming. He has since held key positions in both international and national NGOs focused on rights and governance. His past roles include Program Manager at Transparency International Bangladesh, Coordinator of Field Operations at Bangladesh Health Watch under Brac University, and Project Coordinator and Advocacy Coordinator at PSTC. He has managed projects supported by UNDP, UkAid, and other donors, particularly in civic engagement, human rights and governance.