Aamna Khan
Dr. Aamna Khan is an International Relations scholar specialising in China’s foreign policy, Gulf geopolitics, regional security, conflict mediation, strategic narratives, and the evolving structure of global governance in an increasingly multipolar world. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Jilin University, China, completed under the Chinese Government Scholarship. Her doctoral research examined the […]
Abdulla Rasheed Ahmed
Abdulla Rasheed Ahmed served as Minister of State for Education of the Republic of Maldives from December 2018 to November 2023, contributing to national education policies and promoting equitable learning opportunities. He is an accomplished Maldivian educationist with more than 30 years of experience in teaching, school leadership, public administration, educational policy, and professional training. […]
Abdus Sami Anon
Abu Al Sayeed
Afsana Mimi
Aishath Rafiyya
Dr. Aishath Rafiyya is an international peace and governance expert, political leader, former diplomat, and advocate for education, women and youth empowerment, and social impact. With more than two decades of experience across governance, diplomacy, peacebuilding, international development, and the public, private, and civil society sectors, she is committed to inclusive leadership and expanding opportunities […]
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry is a distinguished Pakistani diplomat with more than 37 years of service in the Foreign Service of Pakistan. He served as Foreign Secretary from December 2013 to March 2017, playing an active role in high-level foreign policy deliberations. His final diplomatic assignment was as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, where […]
Ajit Singh
Appointed High Commissioner of Canada to Bangladesh on November 20, 2024, Ajit Singh has lived, studied and worked in multiple languages in 6 countries on 4 continents. He joined the Government of Canada in 2008 after working in media, academia, the United Nations and civil society organizations. He later worked in private law in Toronto […]
Alexander Falck-Bilden
Alexander Falck-Bilden is Deputy Head of Mission at the Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As part of the embassy’s leadership team, he works across a wide range of policy areas and contributes to Norway’s engagement with Bangladesh on political, economic, development, humanitarian and multilateral issues. In his current role, he supports the embassy’s dialogue with […]
Ali Riaz
Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University, President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. Between October 2024 and February 2026, he consecutively served as the Head of the Constitution Reform Commission, Vice-Chair of the National Consensus Commission, and […]
Anastasia S Wibawa
Anastasia serves as Project Director for the AHEAD Bangladesh project, an EU-funded initiative to support Bangladesh’s democratic transition and promote the electoral integrity of the 2026 elections. With over 25 years of experience in democracy assistance, she specializes in election assessment and monitoring, civil society strengthening, and governance issues. She has led the implementation and […]
Andaleeve Rahman
Barrister Andaleeve Rahman is the Minister of Information and Broadcasting of Bangladesh and a Member of Parliament representing the Bhola-1 constituency. He was appointed to the cabinet in August 2026, marking his first ministerial assignment, after being re-elected to Parliament earlier in the year. Rahman is the Chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), a […]
André de Mello e Souza
André de Mello e Souza is a Tenured Researcher and Policy Analyst at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a Brazilian governmental think tank. He is currently Head of the International Policy Center for Inclusive Development. He earned a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, United States. Mello e Souza […]
André Wiersig
André Wiersig is a German open-water swimmer, author, documentary filmmaker, and ocean advocate. He is the Founder and Managing Director of theBlueHeart gGmbH, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to marine education, educational filmmaking, and partnerships connecting schools, science, and industry. After competing in swimming, triathlon, and Ironman events, he crossed the English Channel in 2014 and […]
Anthony Gomes
Anthony Jude Uche Igwe
Dr Uche Igwe is currently a visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. He has extensive expertise in democracy, geopolitics and the blue economy. He serves as the National […]
Anurag Acharya
Anurag Acharya is a Nepal-based policy researcher, political commentator, and former journalist with over fifteen years of professional experience spanning research, media, governance programming, and policy engagement. He currently serves as Director of Practice at Policy Entrepreneurs Inc. (PEI), a Kathmandu-based think tank, where he leads research and programming on governance, politics, foreign aid, and […]
Arjun Singh Kadian
Arjun Singh Kadian is an academic and policy professional based out of offices in Haryana and Delhi. A gold medalist geologist by training, he graduated from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. In addition to teaching, Kadian has worked at the chief minister’s office, Haryana, and travelled widely across the region to understand the nuances of […]
Arpita Ghosh
Arun Kumar Sahni
Lieutenant General Arun Sahni is a former Army Commander of the Indian Army with extensive operational, strategic, and diplomatic experience in India and abroad. A distinguished officer from the outset, he was awarded the Sword of Honour and the President’s Gold Medal upon commissioning. Over the course of his career, he developed deep expertise in […]
Ashok Sajjanhar
Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar discharged his responsibilities in the Indian Foreign Service for 34 years. He was Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia and has worked in senior diplomatic positions in Indian Embassies/Missions in Washington DC, Brussels, Moscow, Geneva, Tehran, Dhaka and Bangkok, and also at Headquarters in India. He negotiated for India in […]
Asif A Chowdhury
Asif A. Chowdhury is a distinguished business leader, diplomat, and trade advocate with more than 35 years of experience spanning international diplomacy, bilateral trade, business development, logistics, and corporate leadership. He currently serves as Vice President of the World Federation of Consuls (FICAC), Honorary Consul for Chile in Bangladesh, and Managing Director of Chowdhury Group. […]
Bahauddin Ahmed
Biswas Baral
Biswas Baral is the Editor of The Kathmandu Post, Nepal’s most widely read English daily. With two decades of experience in Nepali journalism, he is also the Founding Editor of The Annapurna Express, another English daily published from Kathmandu. Baral is host of the popular YouTube show ‘Idea of Nepal’ as well as a political […]
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić is a Serbian politician who served as president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. He was elected to his first term on 27 June 2004, when Serbia was part of Serbia and Montenegro, and re-elected for a second term on 3 February 2008, this time as president of independent Serbia. He resigned on […]
Carol Christine Fair
C. Christine Fair is Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research focuses on South Asian security, militancy, counterinsurgency, political Islam, and the strategic behaviour of states and non-state actors. She previously served as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a political officer […]
Carolina Chimoy
Carolina Chimoy is an international correspondent at DW’s headquarters in Berlin, currently covering the war in Ukraine. She previously served as DW’s U.S. correspondent in Washington, D.C., reporting on the White House, national security, and transatlantic relations. Over the course of her career, Carolina has reported extensively from across Latin America, covering presidential elections in […]
Catherine M Cecil
Catherine Cecil is an attorney and governance specialist with more than 30 years of experience across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ukraine, and the United States. In Bangladesh, she served as Chief of Party for the UK-funded Strengthening Political Accountability for Citizen Empowerment programme, implemented with support from The Asia Foundation, which promoted internal democracy within political parties […]
Charles Thomas Campbell
Charlie Campbell is TIME’s Editor-at-Large, based in Singapore. Since joining TIME in 2013, he has served as a correspondent and editor in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, London, and Singapore, reporting on major political, social, technological, and economic developments across Asia and beyond. His field reporting has covered some of the defining global events of recent […]
Clay Goodloe Wescott
Clay Goodloe Wescott is an international expert in public financial management, governance, information management systems, and monitoring and evaluation, with more than 40 years of professional experience across approximately 80 countries. His work has focused extensively on strengthening government financial systems, treasury management, institutional performance, and public sector reform. He has led major assessments and […]
Côme Bastin
Côme Bastin is a French journalist, author, and South Asia specialist whose work examines the political, social, environmental, and cultural transformations reshaping the region. For more than six years, he was based in Bangalore as a correspondent for Radio France Internationale, reporting extensively from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. His journalism explores democracy, youth […]
Constantino Xavier
Dr. Constantino Xavier is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) in New Delhi, where he directs the Foreign Policy and Security Studies programme. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow in the Foreign Policy programme at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at […]
David Patrician
David Patrician is an moderator and journalist currently based in Hamburg, Germany. He initially came to Germany on a prestigious Fulbright Journalism Scholarship and has since contributed to several leading media outlets, including Voice of America (VOA), Deutsche Welle, N-tv, RTL Nord, and the Hamburger Abendblatt. In addition to his journalism work, David has moderated […]
Debapriya Bhattacharya
Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya is a macro-economist and public policy analyst. Currently, he is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Dhaka, where he served as its first Executive Director. He is also a member of the CPD Board of Trustees. He is the Convenor of the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh- […]
Debi Karmakar
Debjyoti Chanda
Dr Debjyoti Chanda is currently Professor and Head in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. With over 25 years of teaching experience at the university level, he has earlier served the Government of India in the Indian Information Service as a Gazetted Officer in the Ministry of Information and […]