Mohammad Tarikul Islam
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 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, South Asia Blog of LSE, the Oxford Political Review, the SOAS Blog, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Cambridge Global Human Movement, 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 and Bangla dailies of Bangladesh and Nepal. Professor Islam is perhaps the rare academic who has been affiliated with Oxford, 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). Professor Islam’s selected book publications include: Economic Diplomacy: Reshaping Bangladesh-Latin American Diplomatic Relations, Springer Nature; COVID in South Asia: Impact on Society, Economics and Politics, Routledge; Disaster, Governance and Development: Perspectives from Bangladesh, Springer Nature; and Local Government in Bangladesh: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Routledge. Professor Islam’s two significant books on human security and media diplomacy are currently being reviewed by Springer Nature for publication in 2026.The Interim Government of Bangladesh established the Local Government Reform Commission in 2024, to which Professor Islam was appointed as a member.
Research interests
- Local Governance and Rural Politics
- Inclusive Development and Human Security
- Economic Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy
- Disaster Governance, Environmental Legislation, Climate Migration and Climate negotiations