Mehnaz Rabbani is currently senior research associate at the Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Bangladesh. She is also a consultant for the Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh Resident Mission) and research associate at the Economic Research Group, Bangladesh. Rabbani has a master’s degree in economics from Brown University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bard College. As the coordinator of the economics research unit at BRAC, her extensive field work and tasks for the last two years include defining the research agenda of the research team, designing instruments of research, training enumerators, supervising data collection, and analyzing data. Her main research interests are extreme poverty issues and innovative-targeted programs. Rabbani’s most recent work includes comparison and impact assessment of programs targeted toward the extreme poor and exploring the lives of Bangladeshi adolescents using time-use data.