Ravid Chowdhury is currently working as an IGC Data Research Fellow in Bangladesh supporting IGC researchers. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he pursued a course of study in Economics and served as the Senior Class President. At Wesleyan, Chowdhury held several Teaching Apprenticeships for which he earned the Pluckas Teaching Apprenticeship Award. He has also interned with the Grameen Bank & Trust in Dhaka, Bangladesh, working under Dr. H.I. Latifee and Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus
