Professor Sharmind Neelormi is a distinguished Bangladeshi economist and a senior faculty member of the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University, with over three decades of experience in teaching, research, and policy advocacy. She holds both B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Economics from Jahangirnagar University.
Her core academic and research interests include climate change, sustainable development, gender, agriculture, and livelihoods. Professor Neelormi has played a significant role in national and international policy processes. She served as a Member of the White Paper Committee on the State of the Bangladesh Economy under the Chief Advisor’s Office of Bangladesh and contributed to the formulation processes of multiple Five Year Plans of Bangladesh. She has also been a member of the International Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), served as a Technical Expert for the Green Climate Fund, and contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
She has authored more than 50 scholarly publications, including journal articles and book chapters. For nearly two decades, she has been actively involved in the climate negotiation processes under the UNFCCC. She served as the Asian Focal point of gendercc-Women for Climate Justice (a forerunner global network and the first Focal Point of Women and Gender Constituency at UNFCCC) for over a decade. She also provided leadership to Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL), an apex network of over 200 civil society member organizations working on sustaining livelihoods of common people. She has provided technical support and collaborated with the Government of Bangladesh on climate negotiations at the UNFCCC.
Professor Neelormi has worked extensively with development partners and bilateral and multilateral agencies on Bangladesh’s economic development, delivered keynote addresses, and participated in numerous national and international forums. She has contributed to the formulation of several key national policies and strategies, including the National Conservation Strategy; Five Year Plans; Climate Change and Gender Action Plan; and other major government policy frameworks.
She has delivered training and lectures to a wide range of audiences, including senior government officials, the National Defense College, banking and financial sector institutions (including Bangladesh Bank), journalists, non-governmental organizations, women’s groups, and academic communities both in Bangladesh and abroad. Her professional engagements have taken her to numerous countries worldwide.
Currently, she is serves as a Technical Advisor to the Climate Change Programme of the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB). She is a member of the National Committee of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, the country’s largest women’s platform. She is a Life Member of the Bangladesh Economic Association and an alumna of the South Asian Network on Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). In addition, she is a member of the Women’s Major Group formed at the Rio Conference.
Professor Neelormi is a notable actor in the disability sector. She is a Trustee Member and Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Mukto Dana Trust, which has set a unique model in Bangladesh towards rehabilitating the persons with Neuro Divergent Disabilities (especially persons with Autism), having an (assisted) Independent Living Centre keeping constant efforts ensuring their lives with dignity. She served the Governing Body of the Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), has been serving as an Advisor to ‘Notuner Shanti Nibash’ (a philanthropic organization serving the under privileged girls in the society).
Professor Sharmind Neelormi is known as an eminent debater at national level, a fore runner organizer of Bangladesh Debate Federation in Bangladesh.