Ms. Nishat Shahid Chowdhury is part of IFC’s Manufacturing Agribusiness Service team and is the Program Manager for Partnership for Cleaner Textile (PaCT) Program – a market led initiative in Bangladesh, focusing on enhancing competitiveness and sustainability of the textile and apparel sector.

Nishat leverages her over two decades of professional experience in the international development sector She facilitated an investor roadshow for West African enterprises to Bangladesh to foster inter-regional cooperation in T&G industry. Notably, IFC supports inter-regional cooperation between Asia and Africa to manufacturing of textiles and apparel in Africa.

She is an Environmental Specialist whose core strength is in designing and implementing innovative scalable climate smart high impact projects.

Previous experiences include working for GIZ, European Commission, USAID and CIDA funded projects.

She is a Commonwealth Scholar and completed Research master’s degree in the University Aberdeen, UK.