She completed her MA in Economics in 1995 and was awarded a PhD in Economics in 2004 from India. She is the founding President of the Professional Women’s Association (ProWA), an association of professional women academicians in Bangladesh. Currently she is the Editor of ProWA Bulletin, a bi-yearly publication. She has been a visiting professor at a number of institutes and universities in Bangladesh. She is a life member of Bangladesh Economic Association. Her long-term research interests and concerns cover Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurship, and ICT and Women. Recently her research study on ICT issues titled ‘Economics of Integrating Access to Finance and Access to Information in Bangladesh Economy’ was published in the ‘Journal of Banking and Finance Letters’ of International Economic Society.