Researcher Spotlight: Akib Khan
Personal experience, global conflicts, and detailed data have reshaped the research of Akib Khan, Postdoc Fellow at the House of Sustainable Society. Learn more about his work on how global events ripple into people’s lives far beyond national borders in this Researcher Spotlight.
Akib joined the House of Sustainable Society as a postdoc fellow in 2024, but his path to academia was anything but straightforward. Growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he initially followed practical considerations rather than a clear academic calling. After early work in development research in Bangladesh and Zambia, he moved to Sweden for a PhD at Uppsala University, a transition that reshaped both his life and research.
“I started out very broadly in development economics,” he explains. “Partly because that’s where the opportunity was, but also because I had grown up around those issues.” Over time, however, distance from that context and new experiences in Sweden shifted his focus.
