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Depanjali Roy is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), Bangladesh, where she supports project management, stakeholder engagement, research and proposal development, team coordination, and strategic communication. She has been associated with CGS since 2021, previously serving as a research assistant and research officer, with experience in research design, policy analysis, project implementation, donor relations, field training, and report writing.

 

Depanjali holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in social science from the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Dhaka. She has played a key role in leading CGS’s international flagship event, the Bay of Bengal Conversation, in 2024 and 2025 and served as the CGS Project Lead for the initiative “Ensuring Freedom and Accountability for the Media” supported by The Asia Foundation and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

 

Her professional interests include governance, policy research, institutional development, and democratic accountability. She has contributed to research publications on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh alongside Ali Riaz as principal investigator. In her professional career, she worked with The Asia Foundation, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Christian Service Society (CSS), Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, Deloitte Bangladesh, and CARE Bangladesh.