Panel Speaker at ‘Reshaping Priorities: Mental Health and Socioeconomic Well-Being in the Post-Pandemic Era’ curated by Chatham House, at Nostos Conference 2023, Athens, June 2023.

Moderator at ‘No Health Without Mental Health’ organized by Government of Bangladesh, Government of Rwanda, and Commonwealth Youth Network, at World Health Assembly, May 2023.

Keynote speaker at the Dissemination of World Mental Health Report & National Mental Health Strategic Plan 2020-2030, Bangladesh, organized by Non-Communicable Disease Control (NCDC), DGHS and World Health Organization in December 2022.

Participated as a speaker at World Assembly for Women (WAW!), for a roundtable discussion titled “Realizing a society protecting women’s dignity and pride” in December 2022, held in Tokyo, Japan.

Keynote speaker at the First National Symposium on Child Protection in Bangladesh, presented on “The well-being of our children today is the prosperity of Bangladesh tomorrow”, organized by UNICEF in September 2022.

Participated as a speaker at a high-level side event on “Violence Against Women and Girls” on “Mental Health Consequences of Violence Against Women and Girls”, in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in June 2022, held in Kigali, Rwanda.

Keynote speaker at High Level Roundtable “Rethinking Mental Health: A Commonwealth Call to Support, Care and Transform” in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), organized by Commonwealth Secretariat, co-hosted by the Governments of Bangladesh and Rwanda supported by Commonwealth Secretary-General, with institutional support from Shuchona Foundation in June 2022, held in Kigali, Rwanda.

Panel discussant at the online book launch event “Pracheer Periye: Saima Wazed’s Conversation with Dr. Stephen Shore on his Autobiography and Autism”, organized by Shuchona Foundation and CRI in April 2022.

Speaker at a COP26 side event on Climate Prosperity Plans titled, “From Vulnerability to Prosperity: Climate Prosperity Plans”, organized by CVF/V20 in November 2021.

Speaker at a high-level meeting “the CVF Leaders’ Dialogue” at COP26 in November 2021.

Speaker at a virtual roundtable discussion on “Autism and the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Technology Can Support Equitable Global Response and Recovery” in April 2021 organized by the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations partnered with Mission of Qatar.

Participated as a panelist in a webinar “Climate Change Priorities on Health, Human Rights and Labour’” organized by Permanent Mission of Bangladesh Geneva, Switzerland in February 2021.

Speaker at a podcast interview series titled “Shaping the Future: From Pandemic to Climate Change”, January 2021.

Speaker at “Race to Zero: Climate & Health Dialogue” organized by WHO, Race to Zero, the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), and others, November 2020.

Speaker at a virtual event titled “CVF-CoP26 Dialogue Meeting the Survival Deadline towards Maximal Resilience” in November 2020.

Speaker at the launch of CRI and UNDP’s campaign “Women Safety in Public Places (WSPP)”, October 2020

Speaker at the Climate Vulnerable Leaders’ Event in October 2020.

Speaker at the High-Level Roundtable “Integrating Mental Health into Universal Health Care” in October 2020.

Speaker at the 75th United Nations General Assembly, “Unlock Big Change –Education: The Key to a Better Future” in September 2020.

Speaker as a panel discussant in a webinar hosted by Inter Press Service UN Bureau on “The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Girls” in July 2020.

Speaker at panel session on Bangladesh during the WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health meeting in Geneva, January 2020.

Speaker at session titled Stamping Out the Stigma of Mental Health of the World Economic Forum in New Delhi, October 2019.

Panelist at Technical Briefing on Mental Health: Time to Scale Up, a session at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, May 2019.

Speaker at multiple sessions during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, including Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Progress and Challenges to Achieve Target G, and Side Event and Technical Session on Dhaka Declaration 2015+, Geneva, May 2019.

In 2018, was a speaker at High level roundtable discussion on Universal Access to Information-Ensuring Rights and Openness of Information, which was part of programs to observe the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). It was organized by UNESCO in Sri Lanka.

In 2018, was a plenary speaker and session chair at the 2nd International Conference on Disability & Disaster Risk Management, in Dhaka.

In 2018, was a panelist at the World Autism Awareness Day events at the UN Headquarter in New York.

In 2017 featured as a headline speaker at the 5th Asia Pacific Autism Conference (APAC) held in Sydney, Australia.

In 2016, was speaker at the Panel discussion on disability issues at the Emir Jaber Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Award Ceremony, UNESCO, Paris.

In 2013 was designated speaker for the Government of Bangladesh at the Special High-Level Event on Disabilities at the United Nations General Assembly, New York.

Was panel speaker at World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) events in United Nations Head Quarters in 2011-2014.