Md. Karimul Islam is a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. His research interests include experimental development economics, including labour and health economics, climate-vulnerable communities, household and gender, and agricultural economics. Before joining Oxford, he served as a Senior Research Associate at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, Bangladesh. He worked on several large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) there. He holds both a Bachelor and a Master’s degree in Economics from Khulna University, Bangladesh.