Nargis Nigar

Experience

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  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

  Apr 1997 - Mar 2002

  Research Associate

  Research in development economics in Bangladesh.

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  University of Dhaka

  May 2003 - May 2012

  Assistant Professor

  Teaching students in the bachelor's and master's programs in Economics.

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  University of Waterloo

  Jan 2009 - now

  Project Manager and Principal Investigator

  Lead the International Tobacco Control Policy (ITC) Evaluation Project in Bangladesh.

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  World Health Organization

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2015

  Senior Economist

  Technical support in tobacco taxation to the WHO member states in the Africa region and other countries in Asia and Latin America.

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  American Cancer Society

  Aug 2015 - now

  Lead the Tobacco Control Research team in the Department of Surveillance and Health Equity. Lead projects in economic and health policy research focusing on global tobacco control.

  • Senior Scientific Director

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Scientific Director

    Aug 2015 - Jan 2022
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  Global Labor Organization

  Jan 2017 - now

  Fellow

  Research fellow in labor economics.

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  Tobacconomics: Economic Research Informing Tobacco Control Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  External Collaborator

  Technical support for capacity building in tobacco taxation in low and middle income countries.

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  Society For Research On Nicotine and Tobacco

  Oct 2023 - now

  Associate Editor, Nicotine & Tobacco Research

  Work with Deputy Editors and Editor-in-Chief for peer-review and publication of scientific articles submitted to the flagship journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT).