Rounaq Jahan

Professor ROUNAQ JAHAN is one of the leading political scientists, feminist leaders and authors of Bangladesh. A former faculty of Dhaka University, Professor Jahan teaches and researches at Columbia University since 1990. She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977. She founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centers in Bangladesh, in 1973, and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).