Aklima Parvin is a Senior Project Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Dhaka. She has more than 19 years of program management experience in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating large-scale, complex, integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social protection projects in Bangladesh. She has worked on nutrition and social protection issues under an experimental study jointly conducted by IFPRI and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since 2016, Parvin has been providing overall leadership and technical direction under the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) pilot project. She currently supports the redesigning and launching of Joint Interventions to Improve Birth Outcomes and Nutrition (Jibon) program in close collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and WFP. Before coming to IFPRI, Parvin worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization, WFP, Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation, and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR’B). She received a master’s degree in Public Health from North South University and a master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Dhaka University.