Razik Fazle is a Team Leader and Senior Technical Advisor at Swisscontact. He is based in Bangladesh and working in various capacities, including project management and technical backstopping.
Razik has 16 years of professional experience in portfolio and project management. His core competence is in enterprise and private sector development (PSD) and market systems development (MSD) approach. He has specific expertise in micro-enterprise development, value chain development, industrial and informal labour skills development, and private/public sector engagement. He is proficient in planning, manoeuvring, and implementing pro poor market/business led growth strategies, research and studies. Razik has worked in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Nepal, Ethiopia, and Uganda and successfully served donors and clients like FCDO (formerly UKaid), SDC, EU, Sida, CIDA, EKN, DANIDA, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organisation (WTO), and various private foundations.
Currently, he is leading the trade portfolio of Swisscontact Bangladesh, consisting projects like Digitalisation of border procedures at Bhomra Land Port (DBLP), of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF), and Prioritising Investment in Sanitary and Phytosanitary, or SPS Standards (P-IMA) to Boost Agri-Exports, funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). He is also backstopping the Swisscontact’s South Asian and global portfolio development and business acquisition.
Razik has a master’s degree of Social Science in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and has numerous contributions in both national and international market systems literature and thinking. He is well familiarised with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards of monitoring and results measurements (MRM).
