Rate My Professor SM Zobaidul Kabir

Kabir's distinguished career encompasses roles in academia, government, and international organizations. He served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Strategic Environmental Assessment at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Kinetic Pvt Ltd, Australia (June 2018–December 2019), and in Sustainable Regional Development at Central Queensland University, Australia (October 2011–December 2014). Currently in Bangladesh, he is Joint Secretary (Sustainable Resource Management), Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (June 2023–present), following positions as Chief Environmental Specialist, Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information System, Ministry of Water Resources (July 2021–May 2023), and various Deputy Secretary roles in public administration and law. His major publications feature the book Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries (2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2018), adopted as a textbook at universities worldwide including MIT, USA. Kabir has contributed numerous book chapters on biofuel production from sugarcane, cumulative impacts on public health, environmental governance in megacities, bioenergy policies, solid waste management toward circular economy, waste-to-energy potential, climate change salinity impacts, renewable energy prospects, and nanotechnology in biofuels, published by Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis between 2013 and 2023.