আলী রীয়াজ

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).

Nurul Islam

মোবাশ্বার হাসান

Imtiaz Ahmed

Dr Imtiaz Ahmed is Professor of International Relations and Director, Centre for Genocide Studies at the University of Dhaka. He is also currently Visiting Professor at Sagesse University, Beirut, Lebanon. He has authored, co-authored, and edited 33 books and nine monographs. Dr Ahmed heads several national and international projects and published more than 120 research papers and scholarly articles in leading journals and edited volumes. His recent publications are the following books: Women, Veiling and Politics: The South Asian Conundrum, edited (Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 2020); Civil Society, State & Democratic Futures in Bangladesh (Dhaka: Prothoma Prokashan, 2020); COVID-19: the otherside of living through the pandemic, edited (Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh, 2021); and Rights, Rivers, and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh (Berlin: Springer, 2021).

Ronaq Jahan

Rehman Sobhan