Dr. Shonchoy is an applied economist with interests in issues of global development. He has a wide range of experience in conducting field research and experiments in South Asia and West Africa. His papers appeared in peer-reviewed international journals including the Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development to name a few. Recently he published a book titled “Seasonality and Micro-credit” from Springer. His research has been highlighted in international and local news outlets such as BBC World, ABC Net, TVS Japan and other media outlets around the world. His works have been showcased in the Global Development Blog and World Bank Research Digest.
Dr. Abu Shonchoy is currently a JPAL affiliated Professor, and a fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and global Labor Organization (GLO). Before FIU, he was a visiting scholar at New York University. He also worked as a tenured research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) JETRO, Japan, as well as an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) at the University of Tokyo. He had previous positions in various capacities with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Dr. Shonchoy received several awards and recognitions, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, AusAid, and Neil Vousden Memorial Scholarship. He has been awarded the Albert Berry Prize at the Canadian Economic Association (CEA) Conference for the Best Paper in Development Economics. Dr. Shonchoy graduated from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in economics, a master’s degree in economic policy from the Australian National University (ANU) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He holds the position of the founder and advisory of the MOMODa Foundation, a research-based NGO working with marginalized populations in Bangladesh. He is also the General Secretary of the Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB) – a professional body of economists, development practitioners, and others interested in the development issues of Bangladesh.