Sarder Shafiqul Alam is the Coordinator of the Urban Climate Change Programme of International Centre for Climate Change Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He is a geographer by profession and has over 34 years of experience of research, capacity building, project implementation, organizing international conferences, and article publications for books and journals. His research projects encompass natural resources management, climate change adaptation, urban climate change, poverty alleviation and livelihood promotion, agricultural development, stakeholder analysis and consensus building of local capacity, partnership building, policy and institutional analysis.