Tajmary Akter

Tajmary Akter is a social development professional with almost fifteen years of experience working in Bangladesh. She is an expert in gender equality, diversity and social inclusion. Her experience includes work in livelihoods, market system development, agriculture and nutrition value chains, digital financial services, and emergency response programs in urban areas. She joined Helvetas Bangladesh in 2020 as a Gender and Social Equity Program Manager. She previously worked at Medicines Sans Frontiers, Swiss Contact, Centro Internacional de la Papa, Abt Associates and as a national consultant with the International Labour Organization. Tajmary holds a master of social science in anthropology from Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka. Her master’s thesis was on internal migrants’ (rural-urban) adaptation strategy from a gender perspective.