Standard Chartered Bangladesh has convened a panel of judges to boost innovation across its agricultural research. By forming a Jury Board, the Bank is leveraging specialist opinions from across different fields of agriculture in an attempt to ensure that all research proposals undergo a detailed and rigorous scientific evaluation process.
The Jury Panel is led by Professor AKM Nowsad Alam, Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agriculture University. Other members include Professor Mashura Shammi, Ph.D., Department of Environmental Science, Jahangirnagar University; Professor Md. Rostom Ali, Ph.D., Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agriculture University; Professor Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Ph.D., Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University
Enamul Huque, Managing Director and Head of Client Coverage, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking, Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said,“Part of our commitment to being here for good, involves acknowledging that specialist knowledge plays a major role in effectively mobilising resources and implementing agricultural research to help build a better, more resilient, and food sufficient Bangladesh.”
Professor AKM Nowsad Alam, Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agriculture University, said, “By launching these novel initiatives of funding quality research proposals through rigorous screening process under different disciplines of agricultural sciences, Standard Chartered has further stepped towards its corporate social responsibility through steadfastly strong ethical norms and high moral values.”
