Rounaq Jahan

Professor Rounaq Jahan was a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, USA. She was a Professor of Political Science at Dhaka University, Bangladesh, and headed the women’s programme at the UN Asia-Pacific Development Center, Kuala Lumpur, and the International Labour Office, Geneva. She was a Research Fellow at Harvard, Chicago and Boston universities in the USA and Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. She was the Rajni Kothari Chair of Democracy at the Center for the Study of Developing Society (CSDS), Delhi, India
Professor Jahan received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. She is the author of several internationally acclaimed books and numerous articles. Most of her research is focused on issues of politics, governance, gender, development, and health.