The Board of Directors

Senior Practitioners.
One Firm.

Dsectors is governed by a five-member Board whose directors remain active practitioners. The consultancy and project experience they carry is made directly available to Dsectors' clients.

World Bank · USAID · UN Women 27+ Years Field Experience ~$3 Billion Portfolio
"The result is a firm that can design a study, secure ethical clearance, reach key populations, analyse and write to donor standard, communicate the findings at scale, and build the digital systems that carry the results into practice — under one contract."
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The Board

Five directors, all active practitioners, covering research, gender, climate, digital and programme design.

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Collective Track Record

What this Board carries directly into every assignment — from USAID portfolio design to national campaigns.

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Mission & Values

Why Dsectors exists, and the principles — integrity, rigour, inclusion — that govern how we work.

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Our Services

Ten integrated service lines, from research and MEL to digital transformation and capacity building.

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Partners & Clients

50+ institutions our directors have worked with directly — multilaterals, UN agencies and donors.

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Collective Board Credentials
240 USAID Projects Designed · ~$3B
50+ World Bank Sovereign Operations
60 Million People Reached via Campaigns
27 Years Gender & DRR Leadership
35+ ERP Implementations Globally
30+ Research Studies Led
Fulbright Scholar · USAID Awards
IFC Performance Standards Expertise
National HIV Campaign · MoHFW
Odoo Certified · AI Fluency Certified
Active Practitioners

Meet the Experts

Each expert brings deep institutional knowledge from the donor side — as designers, evaluators, specialists and implementers of the world's largest development programmes.

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Musharrat Sharmee Hossain, Chairperson, Dsectors Services Limited
Chairperson
Board Chair

Musharrat Sharmee Hossain

Gender Studies · Media Analysis · Academic Research
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of English & Modern Languages, North South University
Gender Studies Political Discourse Media Analysis GBV Advocacy Critical Discourse Analysis Fulbright Scholar

An academic researcher and educator specialising in gender studies, social media, political discourse and critical discourse analysis. Holds M.A. from Oklahoma State University (TESL/Linguistics) and M.A. from University of Dhaka. Has taught at North South University, University of Minnesota Duluth, Oklahoma State University and Rutgers University as a Fulbright FLTA. Engaged with DW Akademie, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Young Feminist Network. Research presented at NWSA (Minneapolis, 2022) and WEEF-GEDC (Barcelona, 2021).

⏱ 15+ Years
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Faizul Karim, Managing Director, Dsectors Services Limited
Managing Director & CEO
Managing Director & CEO

Faizul Karim

Research · Communications · Knowledge Management
Development Communications & Research Specialist — 20+ Years
World Bank UNAIDS Strategic Comms HIV/Key Populations Research Studies Citizen Journalism

Over 20 years in communications, research and stakeholder engagement. Led/contributed to 30+ research studies across health, gender, human rights and justice. His national campaigns — including MoHFW's 'Banchte Hole Jante Hobe' — reached 60 million people. National Consultant for UNAIDS; World Bank collaborator. Architect of blog.bdnews24.com, Bangladesh's first citizen-journalism platform. Presenter at 20th, 22nd, 23rd International AIDS Conferences.

⏱ 20+ Years
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Sadiq M. Alam, Director, Dsectors Services Limited
Director
Director · Digital & AI

Sadiq M. Alam

Enterprise Architecture · ERP · AI Integration
COO, Metamorphosis Ltd. (Official Odoo Country Partner)
Odoo ERP AI Integration BUET · NUS 35+ Implementations Govt. IT

20+ years across IT, engineering and digital transformation. 35+ Odoo ERP implementations globally (Bangladesh, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand…). Govt. of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Armed Services Board, Save the Children, CIRDAP. Certified Odoo Functional Consultant; AI Fluency (Anthropic). Published on ERP-AI convergence and secure closed AI for zero-data-bleed environments.

⏱ 20+ Years
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Shaheen Bin Siraz, Director, Dsectors Services Limited
Director
Director · Programme Design

Shaheen Bin Siraz

USAID · Project Design · EESG Safeguards
Former Project Design Team Lead, USAID/Bangladesh · EESG Advisor
USAID $3B Portfolio IFC Performance Stds AOR/COR WB ESS WASH Cluster

25+ years international development. Project Design Team Lead, USAID/Bangladesh (2012–2025) — facilitated ~240 projects worth ~$3B across climate, health, education, governance and humanitarian. Now advising on EESG compliance (IFC PS & World Bank ESS) via Lexington Advisory and Consilium Group Advisors. UNICEF-rostered Global WASH Cluster Coordinator. USAID Mission Honour Award (2015, twice) and Eagle Award (2014).

⏱ 25+ Years
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Farhana Hafiz, Director, Dsectors Services Limited
Director
Director · Gender & Humanitarian

Farhana Hafiz

Gender · Climate Resilience · Humanitarian Action
National Consultant, UN Women Bangladesh · Former Regional Gender Advisor
UN Women Gender-DRR GBV/PSEA Oxfam Asia Humanitarian Coord.

27 years in gender-responsive DRR, climate adaptation and humanitarian coordination. National Consultant, UN Women Bangladesh (2025–present). Former Regional Gender Equality Advisor – Asia, Nutrition International. Contributed to Gender-Responsive Guidelines, SoD 2020. Represented UN Women in Joint Post-Conflict Needs Assessment in Yemen. Initiated first women-focused bKash mobile money transfer in humanitarian response in Bangladesh.

⏱ 27 Years
Collective Institutional Experience

What This Board
Carries to Every Assignment

These are not listed credentials — they are the lived, practitioner-level experiences the directors bring directly to Dsectors' clients.

~240 projects and activities worth close to USD 3 billion designed and facilitated at USAID/Bangladesh across climate, health, education, democracy and governance
Gender and GBV technical leadership delivered across 50+ World Bank sovereign operations in Bangladesh and Bhutan
National campaigns — including MoHFW's national HIV prevention campaign — reaching an estimated 60 million people nationwide
Contributed to Gender-Responsive Guidelines for the Standing Orders on Disaster (SoD) 2020 — Bangladesh's key national DRR framework
35+ Odoo ERP implementations globally including Save the Children, CIRDAP, Government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Armed Services Board
Representation at 20th, 22nd, 23rd International AIDS Conferences; ICAAP11, ICAAP12; NWSA Annual Conference; WEEF-GEDC Conference; and XI IASSCS Conference
Initiated the first women-focused bKash (mobile money) programme in humanitarian response in Bangladesh — under NARRI Consortium (Oxfam, ECHO, DFID)
USAID Mission Honour Award (2015, twice) · Eagle Award (2014) · Fulbright FLTA Grant · Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs (BOBs) Nomination · Phi Beta Delta Outstanding Paper Award

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