Professor Munshi Sulaiman

Munshi Sulaiman is the Director of Research and a Professor of the Master of Development Studies program at BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Brac University. 

His other affiliations include Advisor for The Agency Fund, and Research and Evaluation Advisor for Save the Children International.

Dr Sulaiman started his research career at BRAC’s Research and Evaluation Division (RED) in 2004. His last appointment was as the Director for Research, Monitoring and Learning at Save the Children in Somalia.

He has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. He has published extensively, including in top international economics journals on poverty, financial inclusion, and labour markets issues.

Journal articles

• Disability-inclusive Graduation Programme Intervention on Social Participation among Ultra-poor People with Disability in North Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial (2025)
  • Author(s): Chen, Shanquan; Banks, Lena Morgon; Carew, Mark T.; Kipchumba, Elijah; Davey, Calum; Sulaiman, Munshi; Kuper, Hannah
  • Publisher: BMC Medicine
• BRAC at 50: reflecting on 50 years of BRAC contributions to development knowledge and practice (2024)
  • Author(s): Banks, Nicola; Jahan, Nusrat; Matin, Imran
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Evaluation of a disability-inclusive ultra-poor graduation programme in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial with process evaluation (2024)
  • Author(s): Kipchumba, Elijah; Davey, Calum; Marks, Sarah; Mugeere, Anthony; Chen, Shanquan; Banks, Lena Morgon; Islam, Kazi Eliza; Shakespeare, Tom; Kuper, Hannah; Sulaiman, Munshi
  • Publisher: Springer