Ayesha Noor

Ayesha works as a National Expert in Research and M&E at SPPS project UNDP Bangladesh, with over ten years of experience in research and development. She specializes in quality research, multi-agency coordination, and disaster risk insurance schemes in social protection. Ayesha has worked on climate budget and climate fiscal framework. She has authored book chapters on climate change and sustainability. She is currently working on identifying shock-responsive social protection models in urban settings of Bangladesh and a non-state actor report in social protection. Ayesha is passionate about development economics and poverty alleviation, social safety net initiatives and eradication of extreme poverty. Her other interests are sustainability and climate Change. Ayesha holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Department of Economics at the University of Dhaka, an MSc in Urban Management and Development from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. She completed training programs on disaster risk reduction, climate change, gender, and female migrants’ livelihoods in Asian cities, focusing on improving food and water security. She excels in diverse learning experiences, focusing on economic development and environmental change using panel, spatial, and experimental data.