Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar
Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar

Managing Director, Innovision Consulting Private Limited

Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar is the Managing Director and Lead Consultant of Innovision Consulting Private Limited (Bangladesh) and Innovision Global Consulting Limited (UK). He is also serving as the Chairman of the IFAD funded Value Chain Capacity Building Network (VCBN) which currently represents 11 organizations working on market systems development and value chain development in Asia and the Pacific. Rubaiyath has worked in the capacity of technical director and lead consultant on systemic solutions to poverty challenges in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Yemen for 16 years.

His clients include the World Bank Group, DFID, UN, UN Women, World Food Programme (WFP) and the leading international NGOs and consultancies working in the fields of economic development and poverty alleviation. Rubaiyath has worked extensively on the largest extreme poverty programmes in Bangladesh. He has several research publications on livelihood, cash transfer, asset transfer and market-based response for sustainable pathway out of graduation from extreme poverty. Rubaiyath is an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. He is an Acumen Fellow from Bangladesh.