Md. Jainal Abedin is a Country Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has more than 25 years of experience in program planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating in both rural and urban contexts, with a focus on food systems transformation and multistakeholder partnerships.
Before joining IFPRI, Abedin worked with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), CARE Bangladesh, Handicap International, and RDRS Bangladesh. He has held managerial and technical roles in various strategic areas, such as urban food systems transformation, extreme poverty reduction, action research, nutrition and food security, governance, climate adaptation, livelihoods, disability inclusion, women’s empowerment, policy advocacy, and capacity building.
Abedin received his master’s degree in business administration from Southeast University, Bangladesh, and his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Bangladesh Agricultural University.
