Biography
1 October to 30 November 2025
Professor Dr Mohammad Tarikul Islam is a Professor of Government and Politics at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. In South Asia, he is highly regarded as an emerging political scientist. Before joining the University, Dr Islam worked with the UNDP for a period of seven years in different capacities. During these roles and brief missions at UNDP country offices in Indonesia, Nepal, and China, Professor Islam gained hands-on experience that continues to inform his research and teaching. Dr Islam is a regular contributor to the South Asia Blog of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Oxford Political Review, the SOAS Blog, and the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He has a good number of publications to his credit, mostly appearing in international outlets (Routledge, Nature, Elsevier, Cambridge, SAGE, Oxford, and Springer). His articles regularly appear in some of the leading English dailies of Bangladesh and Nepal. Professor Islam is perhaps the rare academic who has been affiliated with Cambridge, Harvard, SOAS, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University in different prestigious capacities (Visiting Scholar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Visiting Scientist, Visiting Professor/Guest Faculty, and Visiting Research Fellow). The Interim Government of Bangladesh established the Local Government Reform Commission in 2024, to which Professor Islam was appointed as a member.
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Selected publications
Islam, M.T., & Hossen, M.B. (2025) Economic Diplomacy: Reshaping Bangladesh Latin American Diplomatic Relations, Springer Nature
Ali, M., Akhtar, R., & Islam, M.T. (2024) COVID in South Asia: Impact on Society, Economics and Politics; Routledge
Islam, M.T. (2023) Disaster, Governance and Development: Perspectives from Bangladesh, Springer Nature
Islam, M.T. (forthcoming) Local Government in Bangladesh: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Routledge