Ahmad Rafi
01 — About

"In an era of rapid growth, I advocate for Design — because Development without a blueprint is chaos."

I am Ahmad Rafi (Nafiul) — a multi-disciplinary researcher, AI strategist, and author based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As the Director of Policy Insights Bangladesh (PIBBD), I work at the intersection of technology and public policy.

My career is dedicated to one mission: Architecting a transparent, data-driven, and intellectually honest future for my nation.

Ahmad Rafi — Director, PIBBD
Ahmad Rafi — Nafiul
Full Name Ahmad Rafi (Nafiul)
Current Role Director, PIBBD
Specialties AI Strategy · Political Intelligence · Policy
Advisory UNDP · ICT Division
Location Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mission Design over Development

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Bangladesh Need Design NOT Development

"উন্নয়ন অন্ধ হতে পারে, কিন্তু ডিজাইন সবসময় দূরদর্শী। বাংলাদেশ কি কেবল ইট-পাথরের প্রবৃদ্ধিতে আটকে থাকবে, নাকি একটি সুসংগঠিত রাষ্ট্র হিসেবে আত্মপ্রকাশ করবে?…

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02 — Featured Governance Projects

Governance by Design

5 Active Systems
Bangladesh · Dubai · Remote
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FACTCHECKBD
SDG 16 · Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions

FactCheckBD

AI-Integrated Information Integrity Hub

Bangladesh's first automated verification engine designed to mitigate synthetic media risks and counter coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) at national scale.

Architecture 5-tier AI verification chain — Python & FastAPI backend with real-time API integrations, ClaimReview JSON-LD schema, and IFCN-aligned verdict taxonomy.
Strategic Impact Strengthens national information security and verified public discourse — aligned with SDG 16.10 (public access to information).
Python FastAPI Gemini 1.5 Pro MongoDB ClaimReview NLP
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NAGORIKBD
SDG 11 & 16 · Accountable & Inclusive Institutions

NagorikBD

Decentralised Civic Accountability Platform

Empowering citizens to monitor and rate public service delivery across all 64 districts — bridging the institutional trust gap through structured, data-backed civic feedback.

Architecture Full-stack civic-tech platform — real-time transparency dashboard with district-level performance indices and structured public sentiment indexing.
Strategic Impact Creates a measurable accountability layer between state and citizen — supporting SDG 11.3 (participatory planning) and SDG 16.6 (effective institutions).
Next.js FastAPI PostgreSQL Data Dashboard Civic Tech
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POLIPEDIA
SDG 16 · Democratic Knowledge & Institutional Memory

Polipedia

Bangladesh's First Political Encyclopedia

Bangladesh's first comprehensive digital encyclopedia documenting political history, institutions, parties, and governance data — building the nation's structured political knowledge base.

Architecture Custom WordPress (Sage framework) — optimised for high-volume research data, institutional searchability, and structured knowledge taxonomy.
Strategic Impact Preserves institutional memory and democratises access to verified political knowledge — advancing SDG 16.10 (public access to information).
WordPress Sage Political Archive Open Access Civic Education
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OSINT · NLP
SDG 17 · Evidence-Based Policy & Partnerships

Narrative Intelligence

National Sentiment Analysis Engine

A large-scale OSINT system scraping national portals and news channels to decode public sentiment and map emerging social triggers in real time.

Architecture Python / n8n scraping pipelines with NLP-based multi-class sentiment scoring and geospatial narrative trend mapping.
Strategic Impact Enables evidence-based policymaking and proactive crisis communication — aligned with SDG 17.18 (data for sustainable development).
Python n8n Web Scraping NLP OSINT
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SOVEREIGN AI
SDG 9 · Resilient & Sovereign Digital Infrastructure

Sovereign AI

Private & Secure Intelligence Infrastructure

Deploying air-gapped, locally-hosted Large Language Models for sensitive institutional workflows — ensuring 100% data privacy with zero third-party cloud dependency.

Architecture On-premise deployment of DeepSeek-R1 & Llama 3.2 via Ollama and Docker — fully containerised within a Linux-hardened environment.
Strategic Impact Secures national data sovereignty and eliminates third-party exposure — directly advancing SDG 9.c (resilient digital infrastructure).
DeepSeek-R1 Llama 3.2 Ollama Docker Air-Gapped
5 Active Systems · All in Deployment View All Research →

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04 — Visual & Auditory Activism

The Lens & The Lyric

Photography — Smithsonian Recognised
A Hungry Man — © Nafiul Ahmad Rafi View on Smithsonian ↗
19th Annual Contest Smithsonian Magazine

"A Hungry Man"

Photography as social documentation. Entered in the 19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest — captured in Dhaka, October 2021. The stories that data cannot tell, the faces that statistics erase.

Dhaka, Bangladesh October 2021 Mobile Category © Nafiul Ahmad Rafi
Music — Rafimusical
Rafimusical
Writing and producing songs as anthems for the youth and the oppressed.
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Inqilab (The Revolution)
Critique of corruption & parliamentary apathy
Original
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Money is the God of Society
Satire on materialism replacing morality
Original
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BNP Theme Song 2026
Youth vote & Country First philosophy
Campaign
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'Ha' Vote Campaign
Youth mobilisation anthem
Campaign
04 — Academic & Professional Credentials

Certified Authority

Certified by global institutions in Public Policy, AI, and Sustainable Development.

A — Academic & Policy Leadership

University of London

Public Policy & Branding

Strategic Communication and Institutional Policy

The World Bank

Sustainable Development Goals

Integrating SDG frameworks into national governance

UNDP

Global Climate Action & Governance

Policy frameworks for climate resilience and sustainable systems

B — Research & Intellectual Authority

Google Scholar

Verified Researcher

Citation and academic impact in political intelligence

ResearchGate

Author & Researcher

Contributing to global research on Algorithmic Bias and CIB

C — Technical & Digital Sovereignty

IBM

Project Mgmt & Cyber Threat

Managing complex technical infrastructures and information security

Google

AI Automation & E-commerce

Operationalizing AI for business and governance systems

Meta

Digital Marketing & Advertising

Strategic audience architecture and digital reach

Reuters

Journalism & Info Integrity

Ethical reporting and combating digital misinformation

08 — Contact

Get in Touch

Whether it's a strategic mandate, a collaboration, or simply a conversation — the door is open.

I work with political actors, corporations, and institutions seeking strategic advantage through intelligence, brand, and technology. Every conversation begins here.

Email contact.ahmadrafi@gmail.com
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WhatsApp +880 160 128 9683
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Location Dhaka, Bangladesh
Currently accepting engagements
Political strategy · Brand advisory · AI integration · Policy research
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