Tithy Dev is from Bangladesh, a graduate student at the Environmental Policy Institute of Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Her research interest is in food security, renewable energy, climate change, urbanization, and economic development. Her master’s thesis is on an empirical analysis of urbanization on energy consumption in the SARRC countries.