Malik Fida A Khan

Executive Director (In Charge), CEGIS and Member, National River Conservation Commission
Contact No.: 01819261274
Email: mkhan@cegisbd.com

Career Summary

Mr. Malik Fida A Khan has over 30 years of extensive experiences spanning across the diversified fields of Water Resources Planning and Management, Climate Change, Information Technology, and development projects in Bangladesh. He has skills for development of integrated planning and implementation through multi organizational involvement and participation of stakeholder for optimum utilization of resources. Besides, serving CEGIS as the Executive Director (In charge), Mr. Khan is also supervising the activities of Climate Change and Disaster Management Division. He has experience in engineering aspects related to water management in the schemes for working out the impact of the rehabilitation works on water resources. He has experience of leading many studies as Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader.

He has experience in formulating the mechanism for assessing the climate change vulnerability, selecting the critically impacted elements, and quantification of damage due to mega climate disasters, multi-sectoral analysis for impact of climate change, setting up monitoring mechanism of evidence of climate change and climate variability. He has the experience to assess the need for awareness rising, capacity building, and education program on climate change issues and make inventory for collection of emission related activity data, institutional advancements for mainstreaming/servicing adaptation, and good practices on adaptation.                 

Having a sound knowledge of water resources and the hydrological set-up of the country, Mr. Khan is adroit planning many projects some of which are: formulation of various water resources planning for the country. He has vast experiences working as resource planner and has formulated strategies for delta, haors, coastal areas and Chittagong hill tract areas of Bangladesh. He was involved in are: Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (Draft), National Water Resources Management Plan (NWMP), Haor Master Plan, Southern Agricultural Master Plan, Water Management Improvement Project (WMIP), District Development Plan for the Districts of Bhola and Cox’s Bazar, Detailed Design of Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project etc.

Being a modeling expert and a senior Mathematical Modeler, he led numerous modeling studies of CEGIS for conducting hydrological and hydro-dynamic modeling studies undertaken for improvement of flooding and drainage situation of urban and semi-urban areas, mathematical Modeling for urban housing projects which were noteworthy.  Besides, he has vast expertise in spatial database management using ArcView, and Oracle/SQL server & access databases.

He has over 12 years of experiences in transboundary water management in Bangladesh. He was involved and led the study team for development of sustainable water sharing options of important transboundary river between Bangladesh and India based United Nations non navigational uses of the International Water Course, 1997. He worked in a number of projects on transboundary water management issues.


Education

M.Sc in Hydroinformatics, IHE, Netherlands, 2003; B.Sc in Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), 1989


Area of Interest/Expertise

Water Resources Engineering, Climate Change Studies


Publications

2021

Assessment of Land Use Change in Environmental Elements Available in The Upazila (Sub-District) SRDI Map: A Case Study of Savar Upazila of Dhaka District  

2017

Tahmina Tamanna, Malik Fida A. Khan, Md. Monowar-ul Haq (2017), Managing Water Resources of Bangladesh in Wet and Dry Season: in Combination with Traditional and New Approaches, 6th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2017), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2017

Rashid, M.A., Hussain, Sk. G., Khan, M.F.A. and Rahaman, A.Z. (2017), Prioritizing Climate-Smart Agricultural Interventions for Food Security, 6th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2017), BUET, Dhaka.

2015

Bushra Monowar Duti, Malik Fida A. Khan, Tahmina Tamanna, Nandan Mukherjee, Md. Abdur Rashid, (2015), Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Technique for Climate Change Induced Drought in Bangladesh, 5th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2015), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015

Rahaman, A.Z., Khan, M.F.A., Aktar, M.N., Hossain, B.M.T.A., Akand, M. K., and Noor, F. (2015), “Climate Change Scenarios of Bangladesh using Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM)”, International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 6-7 March, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015

Aktar, M.N., Hossain, B.M.T.A., Ahmed, T., Khan, M.F.A., Islam, A.K.M.S., Yazdan, M.M.S., Noor, F., and Rahaman, A.Z. (2015), “Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in the Ganges Basin”, International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 6-7 March, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015

Ahmed, T. Hossain, B.M.T.A., Aktar, M.N., Khan, M.F.A., Islam, A.K.M.S., Yazdan, M.M.S., Noor, F., and Rahaman, A.Z. (2015), “Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in the Brahmaputra Basin”, International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 6-7 March, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015

Hossain, B.M.T.A., Ahmed, T., Aktar, M.N., Khan, M.F.A., Islam, A.K.M.S., Yazdan, M.M.S., Noor, F., and Rahaman, A.Z. (2015), “Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in the Meghna Basin”, International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 6-7 March, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2011

Nandan Mukherjee, Malik Fida Abdullah Khan, Nityananda Chakravorty, Rezaur Rahman, Giasuddin Ahmed Choudhury, Ahmadul Hassan (2011), Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change for Water Management Development in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh, 3rd International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2011), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2011

Nandan Mukherjee, Giasuddin Ahmed Choudhury, Malik Fida Abdullah Khan, A K M Saiful Islam, (2011), Implication of Changing Consumption Pattern on Food Security and Water Resources in Bangladesh, 3rd International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2011), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2011

Nandan Mukherjee, Malik Fida Abdullah Khan, Bhuiya Md. Tamim Al Hossain, A K M Saiful Islam, Most. Nazneen Aktar, Shahriar Rahman (2011), A Hybrid Approach for Climate Change Scenario Generation for Bangladesh using GCM Model Results, 3rd International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2011), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2009

Ahmed, F., Z. Vojinovic, A. Mynett & M. F. A. Khan (2009) “An Integrated Approach of Flood Damage Assessment of Dhaka City using Modeling and GIS” Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Water and Flood Management, March 2009, IWFM, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2002

Malik Fida A. Khan, AKM Hasan (2002), “Design of National Water Resources Database a Geo-spatial Database in Bangladesh” Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics sponsored by the International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR). Hydroinformatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

2002

Malik Fida A. Khan, Chitta Ranjan Gupta and Sajia Zaman (2002), “Development of Water Resources Metadatabase in Bangladesh” Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics sponsored by the International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR). Hydroinformatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

1999

J.C.J.H. Aerts, A. Hassan, H.H.G Savenije & Malik Fida A. Khan (1999) " Using GIS tools & Rapid Assessment Techniques for Determining Salt intrusion: STREAM, a River Basin management instrument.

1994

Malik Fida A. Khan, Faruk Iftikharuddin and Mehdi Hasan (1994) "Advanced Survey and Mapping for planning a large water development project" A conference of small-scale irrigation management system, Kathmundu, Nepal.

1994

Malik Fida A. Khan (1994) “Application of MIKE11-GIS for selection of a flood bypass “A conference of small-scale irrigation management system, Kathmundu, Nepal.