Mr. Bayazid Hasan has been serving the Disaster Management Watch (DM WATCH) as a Managing Partner since 2016. After incorporated as a private limited company, he has assumed the role of Managing Director. Mr. Hasan is spearheading the transformation of DM WATCH LIMITED as one of the research pioneers in national and international sphere through being dynamically involved in multi-sectoral research and project matters of the firm. 

He studied Political Science and Disaster Management at the university of Dhaka. Having a research bend of mind, he commenced his professional journey with Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC at 2006 as a Staff Researcher. Later, he joined BRAC Development Institute (BDI) and, in 2013, he joined the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) of BRAC University. His research interest entails- urban poverty, access to urban justice, governance and politics, climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR) emergency response (ER) and pro poor disaster management, engendering disaster management, women empowerment, masculinity and gender equality, migration, Poverty, food security, food justice and politics, social protection, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), financial education as well as consumer protection.

Mr. Hasan has garnered an outstanding specialization on conducting robust field research rigorously over the remote rural and urban areas. He has a substantial research management and policy engagement stronghold gained through the hands-on experience of leading different long term multi-stakeholder and multi-country research and policy analysis consortia. He has participated and presented research works and papers in numerous national and international forum.

In a close partnership, He has also played a vital role as a lead consultant with several prominent national and international research organizations and agencies, universities and donors including World Bank, UNDP, WFP, Save the Children, WaterAid, SNV Netherland Development Organization, Concern Worldwide, BRAC, BRAC University, Asia Foundation, CARE, OXFAM, VSO, BNWLA, BTS, IDEA, CPD, Urban Development Directorate (UDD).

As a proud Chairman of DM WATCH LIMITED, Salma Akhter is, proficiently, leading smooth operations and functions. She has completed her Bachelor and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with distinctions on Human Resource Development from IBAIS University. DM WATCH LIMITED has always appreciated her active involvement and effective guidance in developing digital human resource management system.

Though the starting point of her career was in telecommunication sector, she has made quite a reputation as an expert of banking, human resource management and development. She has also garnered an extensive experience in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Development (HRD) from her pragmatic career track with different national and international organizations.