Recardo Saurav Antor Halder

Recardo Saurav Antor Halder is serving as a Research Economist at TRACE Consulting, focusing on applied research in trade policy, trade facilitation measures, and market access. His research covers time release studies (TRS), export diversification, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, non-tariff barriers, WTO issues, customs modernization, tariff policy analysis, and macroeconomic policy analysis. He turns evidence- based research into practical and implementable policy recommendations.

He previously served as an economic researcher at the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) and the Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI), where he contributed to research reports, WTO-related issue analyses, policy briefs, field data collection, data analysis, and proposal development. He led and carried out the Time Release Study (TRS) for perishable commodities and food products (HS Chapters 1–24) Under the USDA-funded Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Project (BTF). He also contributed to the 2022 TRS undertaken by the National Board of Revenue (NBR). His trade-related portfolio includes assignments such as Ex-Ante Assessment of Trade Competitiveness of RMG Factories Supported by the PROGRESS Project (Swisscontact); Exploring Bilateral and Regional Trade Potentials (BRCP-1); Scoping Study on Paperless Trade Reforms in Bangladesh (PROKAS British Council); Export potentials of trade in services in Bangladesh: identifying the opportunities and challenges (EIF, WTO Cell, MoC); Non-tariff Measures/ Barriers Faced by Bangladesh while Exporting to Major Export Destinations (EIF, WTO Cell, MoC); and Analyzing the gap in issuing certificates of standards for export (EPB).

He also worked at the BTF project. At BTF, he managed project procurement, grants, documentation, and stakeholder engagement. Together, these experiences in research and project management have given him a broad understanding of how reforms are made, from proposal design to policy formulation and project implementation.

Recardo holds an advanced master’s degree in Economics from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Dhaka.