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Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels, and CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw, Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Vienna. First Deputy Minister of Finance of Poland (1989-1990) and a Member of the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland (1998-2004). Involved in policy advising and research in 20+ countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa under the UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, IMF, EU, USAID, OECD, GIZ and OSI projects. Member of the Academia Europaea. Author of 300+ international publications.
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I'm working as an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Previously, I worked as a Lecturer at the Bangladesh University of Professionals, as a Research Officer at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, and as a Research Analyst at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies. I'm also an Advisor at the Center for Tajuddin Ahmad Research and Activism, a research NGO in Bangladesh. I hold an M.Phil. in Criminology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Genocide Studies, and a master's and a bachelor's in Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Dr. Md. Ahsan Habib is a professor and has been working as a faculty member in the Institute of Education and Research of University of Dhaka since 2005. He received his doctoral degree from prestigious Monash University, Melbourne. He has wide range of research interests including training, inclusive and disability, student voice, sense of belonging, ECCD. Several of his research papers and book chapters have been published by national and international publishers. Dr. Habib has been working as a research lead and consultant in several international and national projects.
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Associate Professor of Gender and Feminism at University of Dhaka. Researching issues in relation to intersectional dimensions and social inequalities is my main passion.
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Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad is an FRQSC doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University, Montreal. He has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, since 2014. His research focuses on the constructions of diasporic masculinities among Bangladeshi men in Canada. Previously, he obtained an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also has an MSS and a BSS degree in Women and Gender studies from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Farhan Hanif Siddiqi is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. His research interests border on ethnicity, conflict analysis and resolution, societal security, crisis management and democratic consolidation. He is the author of, The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements (Routledge, 2012). His forthcoming co-authored book is titled, Introducing International Relations: Concepts, Theories and Practices (Oxford University Press, 2023).
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Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of Dhaka.
Completed PhD in Human Rights Education, from the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Completed MA in Global and International Education, Department of Education, University of York, UK.
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Dr. Mohammad Mainul Islam is a professor and former Chairman of the Department of Population Sciences of the University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh. He got his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from DU and later received his Ph.D. in Demography from the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, China. Dr. Islam completed a Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University, Canada. His work broadly focuses on population and development, global health, population and education policies, and the child and youth population.
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Sarah Bressan is a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where she contributes to the institute’s work on peace and security. Her work focuses on international security, political violence, conflict analysis and prevention, as well as the role of data, technology, foresight, and evaluation in German and European foreign policy.
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Nizni did her Master’s from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her work with Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences focusses on engaging indigenous communities in governance processes. She has worked with the UN on mitigating involuntary displacement and gender responsive planning & budgeting and with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist. Nizni was part of Professional Fellows Programme sponsored by the US Dept of State. She was also awarded the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence hosted at University of Oxford.