Asif Munier has over 30 years of experience in the development sector in Bangladesh, including on human rights, children’s rights and rights of labour migrants as well as rights of displaced Rohingya population. He has worked with national and international NGOs, UN
agencies and eventually continuing as a freelance development consultant. His rights activism and programmatic rights based approach is a crossover between cultural and development sector.
He has a Master’s degree on Public Administration from University of Dhaka and a
Master’s degree on Development Studies from Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, UK. He is also a cultural activist for many years – leading a stage theatre group and teaching Theatre for Development to drama students.
Asif Munier is also the founding member of Projonmo 71, a platform of children of the martyrs of the liberation war. He is the youngest son of martyred intellectual and playwright Munier Chowdhury. Asif’s eldest brother Bhashon was also a freedom fighter and a member of the then Crack Platoon, now a retired UN professional. Older brother late Mishuk Munier was a cinematographer and broadcast journalist, who was DoP for most of filmmaker Tareque Masud’s films.
