PFI Foundation
(Professor Fokhrul Islam Foundation)
An Organization in Special Consultative Status with
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, since 2012
Adv A K Talukdar
MA, LLB
A K Talukder, MA, LLB, is an Advocate at the Gauhati High Court of substantial standing. He guides the day to day executive functions of the foundation. He specifically looks after the legal compliances, women rights training, conflict resolution programmes of the Foundation.
Dr Fozlur Rahman
MA, MM, B.Ed PhD
Dr Rahman teaches at Cotton University, Guwahati. He has also served as the Deputy Director, and interim Director of Madrassa Education, Assam and Secretary, State Madrassa Education Board, Assam. He leads Foundation's training and interreligious understanding programmes and coordinated inter-faith dialogue training project funded by the Brtish High Commission, New Delhi.
A N Barbhuiya
Cummunity Worker
A N Barbhuiya is a grassroots level social worker based in Guwahati. He is associated with many local communities and assists Foundation's community based linkages with local population. He has many years of experience in setting up community organisations, socio-cultural groups and networks with local CBOs.
Executive Board
A R Barbhuiya
MA
Mr Atik is an internationally renowned educational planning expert and works as a consultant with North East Consultancy Services. He has served as a consultant with state governments of Mizoram, Meghalaya and Nagaland. He was worked with Room to Read (USA) as Interim Country Director Bangladesh and ClearWin Technologies (USA) as Regional Vice-President, South East Asia.
Prof Shikhar Kumar Sarma
MSc, PhD
Dr Shikhar Sarma till recently served as the Registrar of Cotton University, Guwahati. He is a renowned computer scientist and presently a Professor of Information Technology (on lien) at Gauhati University.He served as the Director in charge of the Institute of Science and Technology, Gauhati University, before joining Cotton University as a Registrar. He has also taught abroad at Debub University, Ethiopia.
Arif Ansari
Social Worker
Arif Ansari is one of the founding members of the Foundation and associated with its community services, specially flood relief and 'feed the hungry' initiatives. He takes on a variety of roles, often acting as a critical friend facilitating the support that people need through creative use of all available resources. He helps people to improve their financial position, informing them about their entitlements and helping them to access training, work opportunities and benefits.
Robert Romawia Royte
MA
Mr Robert Royte has served Education Department in Govt of Mizoram. Presentlyt he is the Chairman of TT ROYTE Group and proprietor & chief managing director of Northeast Consultancy Services in Aizawl. He is also the owner of I-League Club Aizawl FC
Debajit Sen
BSc, MBA
Debajit Sen served banking sector for long and worked with reputed banks like Axis Bank. An agriculture scientist by education, he also has professional expertise in Banking, Finance and Foreign Exchange. He is interested in agriculture finance and the foundation draws from his past experience in banking sector for its poverty reduction initiatives besides his banking and finance related advisories.
Dr K M Jahirul Islam
MSW, MBA, PhD
Dr Jahir have been working in the field of Rural Health Care Service or more than last 10 years, He has served as Project Head/Manager in one of the largest Fluorosis Mitigation Project funded by JICA in Rajasthan, India. He had also managed Diabetic Awareness and Management programme funded by WDF, Denmark and Village Health Outreach Programme in Assam.