Recardo Saurav Antor Halder completed his MSC in Economics from Ruhr University Bochum Germany focusing on International Trade and Finance. Prior to that he completed his BSS (2015) and MSS (2016) in Economics from the University of Dhaka. He has more than 5 years’ experience in research and project management. He has served in multiple capacities in think tanks and international donor-based projects, such as USDA Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Project (BTF)- implemented by Land O’ Lakes Venture37, the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), and the Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI).
He is currently working at SANEM as a Programme Consultant. His focus areas include trade facilitation, agricultural trade, WTO issues, export diversification, survey designing and implementation, data collection and management, econometric analysis, trade policy analysis, report writing, stakeholder engagement, procurement and grants management, event coordination, training facilitation, and logistics management.