Md. Abdur Rouf Sarkar is a Senior Scientific Officer of the Agricultural Economics Division at Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI). Dr. Sarkar is a bio-economist and specialized in the field of product profile development for planning future rice breeding since 2016. Over the past decade, his works focused on the analysis of farmers’ livelihood systems, food security, technology adoption and impact, poverty and inequality, farm mechanization and labour dynamics, gender dynamics, climate change, behavioral economics and experimental modelling. Dr. Sarkar has completed several research projects and also is a part of the continuing research projects funded by BMGF, USAID, ACIAR, IFPRI, KGF and BARC. He has written over 40 publications (journals and books) in national and international scientific domains.