Faisal Rabbi Email & Phone Number

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Advocating for legal and policy reform to create an enabling environment for sustainable business practices• Supporting H&M Group’s 56% GHG emission reduction target by developing policy instruments such as CPPA• Increase RE generation and connect to Supplier factories through a virtual mechanism• Creating awareness among stakeholders such as the Prime Minister’s Office, MOPEMR, Power Division, DisComs, Grid Companies etc. to remove policy barriers towards a more open energy market• Developing and maintaining relationships with enablers such as Government Offices, USAID, UNDP, UNFCCC, World Bank, and others to create alliances to tackle industrywide challenges. • Developing solutions for complex framework-level problems to elevate social and environmental sustainability standards to maintain market access• Create awareness in Bangladesh and the European Union related to the country’s graduation to Middle-income country and the effect of safeguard clauses in GSP+ regulation while advocating for a more progressive clause• Represent H&M Group in public interaction to create awareness and the required policy push around the sustainability ambitions in climate, environment, and social issues• Develop and promote key messages related to social and environmental policy recommendations and deliver them across different platforms• Handling media interest related to H&M group and its supply chain in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

I am currently involved with two of the largest textile sector projects of GIZ in Asia, one of which is the bilateral one "Sustainability in the Textile and Leather Industry in Bangladesh (STILE)" and the other regional namely "Promoting sustainability in the textile and garment industry in Asia (FABRIC)". I am directly involved in the Environment component of both projects. In STILE I am managing important stakeholders such as the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change (MOEFCC) and Department of Environment (DOE) with the objective to improve the legal framework for the environmental aspect in the textile sector, capacity development of DOE and engaging the labour-force and the community to have increased awareness in the textile sector related to environmental sustainability.In FABRIC component across the regional countries i.e. Bangladesh, Vietnam and Pakistan. I am also Assisting activities of the environment component in other countries of the region namely Cambodia and on a very limited scale in China. Developing capacity development measures (country measures and training and advisory services) for the multipliers (consultants, technical advisors, academia etc.) in the regional countries, elaborating them in concept notes followed by implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

I was responsible for the environmental component of the Promotion of Social and Environmental Standards in the Industries (PSES) project as a Senior Advisor with an objective to create an enabling environment for the businesses to ensure sustainable integrated sludge management (SISM). In this project we have helped a private sector business (Geocycle of Lafarge-Holcim) to get established as a hazardous waste management facility who is capable of disposing textile ETP sludge sustainably according to the guideline developed by DoE with support of GIZ, namely the “Bangladesh Standards and Guideline for Sludge Management”. Apart from that our other successes were briefly as follows1. Development of successful business case/model for SISM based on regional experiences 2. Training and capacity development of more than 100 Department of Environment officials in topics of Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) and, wastewater treatment, monitoring, management and inspection3. Managed and coordinated a team of experts drafting rules on treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDF)4. Developed innovative technologies and methods to improve ETP performance, optimize sludge toxicity and production and organized a webinar on the topic for larger industry audience5. Developed guidelines on safe restart of ETPs, arranged webinar on the same topic which was attended by more than 370 textile factories

Chittagong

• Reporting the overall business to the Managing Director• Project Development, Project Control, Project Management, Bills Processing• Feasibility Studies• Operations Tracking

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Leading the Project Management Unit as a Head of Unit for last two years• Negotiating the contracts with a varied clientele e.g. ADB, World Bank and different ministries of governments across the globe• Planning and allocating the resources, creating work plans and budgets within limited resources• Delivering the expected outputs of projects within set resources and timeline• Controlling the scope of the projects and effectively managing those• Assessing and managing the risks in project implementation • Setting and achieving the profit goal for each project and the portfolio

Dhaka, Bangladesh

As a Contract Assistant in GIZ my role requires me to primarily focus on contracting with external organizations including partner NGOs and consultants. The job description includes• Assessing and identifying the need of hiring External Service Providers• Conducting necessary steps to hire External Service Providers after evaluating the interested applicants based on the preset qualification criteria• Negotiating the terms and conditions of the contracts and various documentation• My participation in the preparation of the gender and sexual harassment policy of GIZ shows my involvement in promoting gender equalityNotable projects during tenure includes:• “Engendering Recruitment” – a holistic approach to reengineering gender equality in workplace• Policy on streamlining vehicle contract sourcing chain

205-207, Tejgaon Industrial Area Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh

Sales & Marketing

Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Organizer, IBA Hostel Indoor Games Carnival 2012 Organizer, Anti-Eve-Teasing campaign 2012

Master'S Degree, Economics

Shortcourse Certificate, Industrial Effluents Treatment And Residuals Management

Principles of Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC), 3R principle, 3 step approach, characterization of industrial wastewater, flow.

B Sc, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: President, CUET Debating Society. Champion, Inter club debate 2008 Arranged by: CUETDS. Champion, 4th inter.

Hsc, Science

Activities and Societies: Chittagong College Debating Society (CDS)

Secondary School Certificate, Science