Tasnia Khandaker Prova is an academic researcher and development practitioner from Bangladesh, with notable experience in implementing multi-stakeholder projects and exploring fragile contexts through participatory research. Currently based in Toronto, Canada as an independent consultant, Tasnia remains passionate about uplifting the voices of those disproportionately affected by climate adversities, poverty and systemic ‘othering’, using non-extractive, ethical and empowering methods. 

As the former Climate Research Lead at the Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University, she led an exploration of the intersection of climate change, security and peace as it manifests in the south-west borderlands of Bangladesh. In the absence of military warfare, her research hoped to dissect multi-pronged violence as a threat to sustained peace in contested and climate-vulnerable regions. Tasnia’s research interests also include human mobility and displacement, complex conflict and responsive planning, multispecies geographies and post-humanist ecocentrism. 

She is a Commonwealth Shared Scholar with an MSc in International Development Practice from the University of St Andrews, UK. She has contributed to authoring research reports, policy papers, journal articles and book chapters, and her notable work includes a book chapter titled “The trapped elephant in the humanitarian’s room” that urges for the rethinking of emergency planning and advocates for greater partnership between conservation and humanitarian actors amid a protracted refugee crisis, an article on adopting community-based methods to work alongside Rohingya refugees in the Journal of Migration and Human Security, and multiple XCEPT research reports on compounded precarity facing different Bangladeshi borderlands.