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CURRICULUM VITAE of PROFESSOR IMTIAZ AHMED CURRICULUM VITAE of PROFESSOR IMTIAZ AHMED Imtiaz Ahmed, Bangladeshi DOB: 7 April 1958 Executive Director, POB: Barisal, Bangladesh Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 20/73, Fairfield Gardens, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka Tel: +94 11 2690913/14 Mobile: +94 777 12 9999 Fax: +94 11 2690769 Email : [email protected] Bangladesh Home address: House 13 B, Helal Kutir, Road 117, Apt. 4 B Gulshan 1, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh Cell: +880-1713-001400 Email: [email protected] Website : http://www.calternatives.org/imtiaz.php Areas of Interest Political Theory; Theories of International Relations; South Asian Politics; Religion and Culture; Tolerance and Terrorism; Foreign Policy Analysis; Strategic Studies; Politics of Development; Refugee and Migration; Women and Environment. Academic Qualifications ♦ Ph.D. (Political Science); Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 1991. 1 Dissertation: State and Foreign Policy: India’s Role in South Asia ♦ MA (International Relations); Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 1983. Dissertation: The Evolution of Bangladesh-United States Relations: Reflections on the Changes in the Foreign Policy Pattern of Bangladesh ♦ MSS (International Relations); Stood First in the First Class; University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1979. ♦ BSS (Honours) (International Relations); Stood First in the First Class; University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1978. ♦ Junior Certificate in French, in First Division; University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977. ♦ Higher Secondary Certificate, in First Division, stood 9th in the merit list in the Dhaka Board; Dhaka College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1975. ♦ Secondary School Certificate, in First Division; Residential Model School, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1973. Fellowship • Ford Foundation Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, October 2004-July 2005. • Asia Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand; February-September 2004. • Rockefeller Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy; August-September 2002. • Japan Foundation Fellow, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan; October 1996 - September 1997. • Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore 0511; May - June 1995. • Foreign Policy Fellow, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland-20742, U.S.A.; January - May 1993. 2 Awards & Scholarships • SSRC Award on International Conflict Zones, Program on Global Security & Cooperation, Social Science Research Council, New York, September 2001-March 2002. • Distinguished Leadership Award, American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, USA, October 1997. • Honorary Citizenship, The State of Maryland, USA. Presented by the Governor of the State of Maryland, March 12, 1993. • Commonwealth Scholarship, 1985-1989. • Carleton University Award, 1988-1989. • Ford Foundation Scholarship, 1982-1983. • Merit Award for standing First in the First Class in the MSS Examination, University of Dhaka, 1979. • Merit Award for standing First in the First Class in the BSS (Honours) Examination, University of Dhaka, 1978. • Merit Award for standing 9th in the Higher Secondary Certificate Examination in the Dhaka Board, 1975. Employment Record § Executive Director, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka (from 1 July 2015). § Professor of International Relations, University of Dhaka; since September 1999 (on leave). § Director, Centre for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka; since 2012. § Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations and Negotiations, Sagesse University, Beirut, Lebanon, since 2007. § Visiting Professor, Jean Monet Faculty of Diplomacy, University of Paris XI, Paris, France (2004-2007). § Chairperson of the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka; November 2000 - October 2003. 3 § Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka; October 1994 – August 1999. § Visiting Associate Professor, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan; October 1996 - September 1997. § Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka; February 1992 - October 1994. § Session Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada); summer 1991. § Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada); 1986-1990. § Part-time Visiting Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka; November 1984 - January 1985. § Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka; August 1984 - January 1992. § Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka; November 1983 - August 1984. Other Professional Involvements v Editor, Journal of International Relations, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Dhaka; since 2010. v Co-Editor, Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro-Asia Dialogue, a publication of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar (Senegal) and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo (Sri Lanka); since January 2000. v Co-Editor, South Asian Refugee Watch, a publication of Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo; Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad; Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu; Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Centre for Alternatives, Dhaka; and Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo (1999- 2003). v Executive Director, Centre for Alternatives, Dhaka. v Editor, Theoretical Perspectives - a journal of social sciences and arts, Centre for 4 Alternatives, Dhaka. v Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, London, England (UK). v Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary South Asia, Oxford (UK). v Member, Editorial Board, Peace and Conflict Studies Notes, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (USA). v Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Dhaka. v Member, Editorial Board, Rajniti Orthoniti Journal (Journal of Politics and Economics) (in Bangla), Centre for Research on Politics, Dhaka. v Member, Editorial Board, The Atlantic Journal of World Affairs, New Delhi (India). v Member, Advisory Board, SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal), Paris (France). v Member, Editorial Board, South Asian Affairs, A Journal of the Centre for SAARC Studies, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (India). v Member, Inter-governmental Steering Committee, South Asian University (2007-2009), v Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka. v Member, International Peace Research Association, Ohio, USA. v Member, Asian Pacific Peace Research Association, Canberra, Australia. v Member, Bangladesh Itihash Parishad (Historical Council of Bangladesh), Dhaka. v Guest Lecturer, Defence Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka. v Member, Board of Directors, Power and Participation Research Centre, Dhaka. v Guest Lecturer, National Defence College, Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka. Project Assignments • Expert on Governance and Legal Structure, Project Office, Main Campus, South Asian University, New Delhi, India (2008-2010). 5 • Team Leader, Mainstreaming the Rohingya Refugee Issue, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) (2008-2009). • Member, Inter-Governmental Steering Committee on the Establishment of South Asian University, Government of Bangladesh (2007-2009). • Core Group Member, State of Democracy in South Asia, Centre for the Studies of Developing Countries, Delhi, India, Ford Foundation, USA and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden (2004-2007). • Country Coordinator, Sustainable Development in South Asia, Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2005-2006). • Member, Afro-Asian Dialogue, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal (in progress). • Team Leader, Democracy and the Role of Political Parties, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden (2005-2006). • Member, Regional Advisory Panel, South Asian Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA (2001-2003). • Team Leader, A Programme for Monitoring Programmes for Poverty Alleviation in SAARC Countries: The Case of Bangladesh, United Nations Office of Project Services, UNOPS-RSU, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September-November 2003. • Team Leader, Foreign Policy of Bangladesh in the New Millennium, The Asia Foundation, USA, 2001. • Consultant, State and Statelessness in South Asia: Reaping benefits from a reconstructed discourse on state and nationality, UNHCR, Geneva, July-December 1999. • Co-Consultant, Social Mobilization in Kishwarganj Thana: A Survey of Issues with Grass-Roots Evidence, UNDP, Dhaka, June 1999. List of Publications a) Books: 1. People of Many Rivers: Tales from the Riverbanks (Dhaka: University Press Limited, i.p.). 6 2. Human Rights in Bangladesh: Past, Present & Futures, edited (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2014). 3. Contemporarising Tagore & the World, edited (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2013). (With Muchkund Dubey and Veena Sikri). 4. Women & Militancy: South Asian Complexities, edited (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2011).
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