Dr. Zaker Ahmad, MILE, LL.M. (Chittagong)

Zaker Ahmad is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of International Economic and Environmental Law of the University of Göttingen. Over his two-year-long stay, Zaker will explore the feasibility and impact of various forms of economic policy instruments to enhance climate-friendly economic development (‘green growth’) in developing countries. The Georg Forster Research Fellowship, kindly provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, will support him for the duration.

Zaker obtained his PhD in Law from the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern in 2020. The thesis, graded summa cum laude, is now available as an open access book entitled “WTO Law and Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion” (Brill, 2021). He holds an interdisciplinary Master of International Law and Economics (MILE) degree (2013) from the WTI, as well as bachelor (2007) and master (2009) degrees in law from the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He is currently on leave from his work as an Associate Professor of Law in the University of Chittagong. Zaker has taken up short-term research and consultancy assignments from time to time in the past, including work for the EU funded Bangladesh Trade Policy Support Program.