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Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University (ISU) and a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. Dr. Riaz held various positions at ISU including University Professor and Thomas E Eimmerman Professorship. He was the chair of the Department of Politics and Government between 2007 and 2017. He previously taught at universities in Bangladesh, England and South Carolina, and worked as a Broadcast Journalist at the BBC World Service in London. Riaz served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington D.C. in 2013, and as a consultant to various international organizations. His recent publications include Trials & Tribulations: Politics, Economy and Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh (2023). Prothoma has published several books by Dr. Riaz including ভয়ের সংস্কৃতি (২০২২), নিখোঁজ গণতন্ত্র (২০২১), Lived Islam and Islamism in Bangladesh (2017), How Did We Arrive Here? (2015).

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Professor Rounaq Jahan taught political science at Dhaka University, Harvard University and Columbia University; headed women’s programs at UNAPDC, Malaysia and the ILO, Geneva and is currently a Distinguished Fellow of CPD. She obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard and is the author of several internationally acclaimed books which include: Pakistan: Failure in National Integration, New York: Columbia; Women and Development: Perspectives from South and South- East Asia (co-editor), Dhaka: BILIA; Bangladesh Politics: Problems and Issues, Dhaka: UPL; The Elusive Agenda: Mainstreaming Women in Development, London: Zed; and Bangladesh: Promise and Performance (editor), London: Zed. Professor Jahan was the founder-president of Women for Women, served on the board of the Population Council, is at present on the board of Human Rights Watch: Asia and is a recipient of the Radcliffe Institute Graduate Society award of Harvard University.

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