I help young people win funded opportunities abroad, businesses sharpen their strategy, and readers make sense of geo-economic affairs.
PhD researcher in management at Trento, MSc from Alliance Manchester Business School, teaching Business Strategy at IBA, and ten years inside Bangladesh's trade institutions. I also co-founded Youth Opportunities.
- University of TrentoPhD researcher, Management
- University of ManchesterMSc, Distinction
- IBA, University of DhakaGuest faculty, Business Strategy
- Ministry of CommerceTen years in trade institutions
- Youth OpportunitiesCo-founder
Going abroad to study? Start here.
Most people don't miss out because they aren't good enough. They miss out because the application never showed it.
I've spent years scoring proposals against written criteria, and I've been through the funded-PhD route myself, from Bangladesh.
Funded PhDs, master's and scholarships
Find the right calls, build a proposal that survives review, and write essays that answer what the panel is actually scoring.
Admissions: UK and Europe
Choosing programmes, personal statements, academic CVs, emails to supervisors, and what each system really asks for.
Application skills
Research proposals, presentations and interviews. The skills that decide applications, and the ones nobody ever teaches you.
IELTS: raise your band
One-to-one tutoring, a speaking partner who pushes you, and written work marked properly. For people close to their target.
Somebody from a place a lot like yours has already made this journey. My job is to make sure the panel sees what you are capable of, in the few pages you get to show it.
Videos
Short, practical walkthroughs on applications, funding and geo-economics. Free, and always will be.
Strategy work for organisations
I help companies build the strategy for their next tier of growth, and do it in a way that lasts.
I run the analysis and come back with recommendations you can act on, not a report that sits in a drawer. I teach Business Strategy at IBA, and I've spent a decade producing work organisations actually use: export potential studies, sector diagnostics, market assessments, and training programmes for institutions.
Opinion
I write about trade, strategy and the economic shifts redrawing the global landscape. Here is what I have been arguing lately.
The Convergence
One email a month on the forces reshaping how countries trade, how companies compete, and where the opportunities sit for people paying attention.
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