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Farhana Ahmed

Organisation: Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)

Farhana Ahmed is working as urban and regional planner in the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), a public trust and research center under the Ministry of Water Resources, Bangladesh. She completed her bachelor degree in Urban & Regional Planning from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and MSc in Environmental Planning from UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands. She has been working for nearly 10 years in the fields of urban planning, regional planning, environmental studies, disaster management, climate change and social studies.