Resource Person

Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam

Co-Trainer & Data Management Specialist

Saqiful is at present working in the Trust and Safety zone in TikTok, looking after the South Asia Markets. Besides that he is also a Commonwealth Scholar in National University of Singapore (NUS). His area of research is in Innovation and Application of Machine Learning in Business Strategy. Besides this, he is an analytics adviser of Intelligent Machines Limited (a company working with machine learning and big data) and Upksill (a professional training and certification platform), and work on several other strategic and analytics consultancy projects. He is also a professional trainer for Light Castle Partners, Upskill, GP Accelerator and NUS Executive Education School, and the community manager for Google Business Groups Sonargaon. He did his MSc in Operations and Risk Management from University of Manchester and did his BBA from IBA, Dhaka University.

His consulting and work areas of focus are – data-driven decision making, application of machine learning in businesses, helping businesses be strategically data driven, strategic risk management and simulations. He also specializes on startup scaling up and strategic planning.

Parveen Sultana Huda

Lead Trainer & HR Expert

Parveen is a widely recognized professional of Bangladesh with 27+ years of experience in Human Resources Management & Development, Project Management, Entrepreneurship Development and Skills & Employment fields with leading organizations both as a professional and consultant. Parveen has so far provided support to various local and international clients, including the World Food Program, TFO Canada, the British Council, Asia Indigenous People’s Pact Foundation (AIPP based in Thailand), RTI International (USA), Sesame Street (US), Primark UK, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, UK), ILO, GIZ (previously GTZ), ITC (International Trade Centre – Geneva), ActionAid International (Bangladesh, Vietnam & Pakistan), etc.

Before becoming a full-time consultant – she worked for various organizations for 12 years with her last full-time job as the Head - HR & IT in ActionAid Bangladesh. Before that she worked in CARE Bangladesh, OTOBI Ltd., Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd., and BEXIMCO group in reverse chronological order since 1994. Parveen has also been teaching at various private universities since 2000.

With her HR Development focus – she is capable of designing and implementing skill development programs for multiple sectors such as the Ready-Made Garments, Construction and Pharmaceuticals Industry. She has recently completed a role as a Co-Trainer for Export Launchpad Bangladesh, managed by TFO Canada along with the Business Promotion Council of the Ministry of Commerce, funded by ITFC and Global Affairs Canada. She also worked in 2019 as a Trainer for ITC SheTrades Commonwealth project to provide training to female entrepreneurs to increase their export earnings. She has been validated as a Core Skills trainer for the British Council’s Global Education Program – Connecting Classrooms, Phases 3 & Phase 4 since 2015 up to 2021. Between 2018-19 she worked with the Centre for Peace & Justice of BRAC University to train 320 female students to two public universities in “Peace Building, Leadership & Entrepreneurship” for UN Women’s “Empowering Women: Peaceful Communities” project. She has worked as the Project Manager for a project titled Digital RMG Factory Mapping – Bangladesh (DRFM-B), which is being implemented by BRAC University. She worked as the Deputy Policy Advisor for the DFID & SDC initiative titled Skills and Employment Program – Bangladesh (Sudokkho). Parveen is also has completed 3.5 years as the Country Manager, Bangladesh of Business Innovation Facility, which is a UKAID funded project managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers UK.

She attended a 3 days Training of Trainers on Convening and Facilitating Multi-stakeholder Dialogues in Value Chain Development; organized by Value Chain capacity Building – Network, funded by IFAD and organized by Helvetas Vietnam in October 2018 in Thailand. She has received an Australian Government Fellowship offered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to attend a 3 weeks course in Australia titled “Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Nepal and Bangladesh”; organized by the University of Southern Queensland. She has completed the Partnership Brokering Course Level One Certification from The Partnering Initiative (TPI) of International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), UK. She had received an ILO scholarship to attend a training program at the ITC (International Training Centre) of ILO on Turin, Italy. She is an ITC (Geneva) Certified Supply Chain Management Trainer for DCCI, Bangladesh. In addition, she has attended various training and conferences in UK, Australia, Italy, Thailand, South Korea, UAE, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. She has received an MBA degree from IBA, DU and currently studying Masters in Development Studies in BRAC University.