Rubayat Chowdhury is a macroeconomist with more than eight years of experience working on monetary policy, growth, and economic development in emerging market economies. Rubayat has submitted his PhD thesis on “Commodity Shocks, Uncertainty, and Sources of Business Cycles” at the Australian National University (ANU) and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), and the Development Policy Centre. His research is focused on the commodity shocks, volatility, and business cycles of advanced and emerging market economies. Rubayat has worked as a short-term consultant at the World Bank and as an economist at the central banks of Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea. Rubayat has been a convenor and lecturer for Graduate Preparatory Macroeconomics (IDEC 7903) in 2022 and 2023, and a tutor for the Open Economy Macroeconomics, Finance, and Development (IDEC 8008), Business Economics (ECON 8069), and Health Economics (ECON3004/6039) at ANU. He received the Helen Hughes Prize in 2013 and 2014 for his exceptional academic performance in the Graduate Diploma and Masters in International and Development Economics at ANU. Rubayat also received the Australia Awards Scholarship (2013-2014), ODI Fellowship (2017-2019), Greg Taylor Scholarship (2020-2021), and Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP) Scholarship (2020-2024).