Kazi Farhan Hossain Purba

Engineer - Sustainability

Kazi Farhan Hossain Purba is a textile engineer and a sustainability enthusiast with demonstrated experience in the field of technical and creative writing, researching, and problem-solving. He started his writing career in a national daily as a 12-year-old, immersed himself in writing for Kaler Kantho, Samakal, Ajker Patrika, and Daily Sun, and is currently working at Reed Consultancy, Bangladesh as Engineer - Sustainability.

Trained in Chemical management by the course offered by GIZ and BUTEX, he has worked with Reed Consultancy, Bangladesh in various projects including GIZ’s PIE, ZDHC Chemical Mapping, developing chemical and waste management modules, exercises, and solutions for GGGI, GIZ, The Institute of Distance Learning at Beuth University of Applied Sciences, visiting and generating reports for Guldenpfennig's (GP) Advanced Chemical Management Training conducted on 5 Bangladeshi factories, etc. He has also served as an International Trainer for CGTI ToT training programme to train 11 Cambodian CGTI professionals on chemical and waste management. As a translator, he has translated 38,349 words from English to Bengali of the Training Program for Operators of Effluent Treatment Plants in Textile Factories, an endeavor of GIZ-FABRIC. Moreover, he was involved in translating more than 60% of the National Chemical Management Guidelines for the Textile and Garment Industry in Bangladesh from English to Bengali, redrawing the figures, and proofreading.
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He has also worked in Textile Today as a Research Executive and contributed more than 100 articles till date about textile, fashion, the latest innovations in textiles, etc. and have visited more than 30 factories for interviewing the top management. He also has three research projects- one with DYSIN-CHEM Ltd about ‘creating interactive merged MRSL and RSL’, the second one with Robintex Group about printing, which have been published in Textile Today. His third project was with Experience Textile Ltd. about woven dyeing project on RFT% improvement. He also has a keen interest in writing and research works. Since the early beginning of his writing career as a 12-year-old in Jugantor, he has been working with Kaler Kantho, Samakal, Ajker Patrika, The Daily Sun and various other national dailies and online portals as a freelance writer. Within a span of more than 7 years, he has contributed 350+ articles and stories about science and technology, study-aids and numerous interviews of prominent people.
 
Kazi Purba accomplished his BSc. in Textile Engineering (Fashion and Design) degree from Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX), one of the premier textile universities in South Asia. He also shares the pride of studying in St. Gregory's High School and College as a Gregorian with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Tajuddin Ahmad, Dr. Kamal Hossain, Syed Nazrul Islam, Dr. Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, etc. world-renowned nation builders.
 
In his leisure, Kazi Purba runs a fashion platform called Fashionnovation and keeps his passion for fashion alive by editing and publishing fashion and sustainability-related articles in Fashionnovation website. He believes in creating an equal chance for all fashion students, designers, indie brands, and fashionistas to showcase their works to the world and thus his founded platform is becoming a global network used by people of 165+ countries worldwide. He also finds pleasure in mentoring and nurturing his university juniors. He reads a lot of books and watches constructive videos. He loves to connect the dots and believes all that he does meets a certain point. He is also a firm believer in Paolo Coelho's quote- “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."