Executive Team

Kazi Niaz Ahmed

Kazi Niaz Ahmed is a policy research and data analysis professional working for the higher-education advancement sector in Canada. Previously, he has worked for the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) at BRAC University, Bangladesh. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka with a Bachelor of Social Science degree and completed his master’s degrees in business administration and Non-profit Management from the University of Sheffield, UK, and Saint Mary’s University, Canada, respectively. His research interests include public policy and administration, governance, political parties and elections, international organizations, financial institutions and markets, use of big data and data science in public and non-profit organizations, economic history, evolutionary psychology and anthropology, and decision and behavioral sciences. He can be reached at [email protected].

Tahzib Azad

Tahzib Azad is equity and investment analyst at AIMS of Bangladesh. He completed his undergraduate from North South University focusing on Finance & Accounting. He is supporting BoR as management consultant and treasurer. He can be reached at [email protected]

Shormila Akter

Shormila Akter is Content Director of Bangladesh on Record. She graduated in Marketing from the University of Dhaka. She can be reached at [email protected].

ABM Shamsud Doza

ABM Shamsud Doza is the Chief Archivist at Bangladesh on Record and a journalist at The Daily Star. His research interests span digital humanities, media studies, print history, and the history of Bangladesh. He holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Dhaka. For inquiries, he can be reached at [email protected].

Ananta Yusuf

Ananta Yusuf is Managing Director of Bangladesh on Record. He is a journalist and filmmaker. Currently, he is leading the multimedia department of The Daily Star.  He graduated in Media Studies and Journalism from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. He can be reached at [email protected]

Advisers

Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan

Dr. Shahnaj HusneJahan is a professor of archaeology, founder director of the Center forArchaeological Studies and Head of the Department of General Education at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Her research interests lie in South and Southeast Asian archaeology, community archaeology, Buddhist art, architecture and archaeology, Islamic art and archaeology, South Asian art and architecture, maritime archaeology, urbanization and ancient cities, cultural heritage management, community based cultural heritage tourism, heritage policy and law. She is a lawyer at Dhaka BAR since 1995. She is a life member of many professional societies and a founder trustee and director of the Centre for Heritage Studies (CenHerst).

She has participated in numerous archaeological excavations and/or explorations in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia. Since 2008 she has been excavating Bhitargarh archaeological site and developed various strategies for socio-economic development of the local community and stimulating public interest in heritage preservation and management.She is regularly organizing heritage festival, seminar, workshop, discussion forum and training program for preserving and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Bangladesh.

She has five books and eighty research articles on archaeology and art history published at home and abroad to her credit.

Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman

Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. Mr. Rahman has taught International Relations at the University of Chittagong for more than eight years. He also taught at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) as a guest lecturer for about a year. His research interests include mass violence & genocide, transitional justice, international terrorism, political Islam and South Asian affairs. He graduated in International Relations from the University of Dhaka. In 2009, Mr. Rahman completed his second master’s degree under the Fulbright Scholarship program in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), California. He is the co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (Routledge, 2016) and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh: People on the Margins (UPL, 2020). He can be reached at [email protected]

Dr. Anis Pervez

Dr. Anis Pervez is a communication, cognition and cinema researcher academically trained in Media and Communication, Information and Film Studies, and Sociology respectively from Dhaka University, Indiana University Bloomington, and Oslo University. Pervez has served several organizations in Bangladesh, USA, and Norway as a media and cinema teacher, communication researcher, journalist, and development consultant. He has published on cinema and information in different academic journals and a book on film theory titled Information, reception and film: A reader-response analysis of Rashomon. At present Pervez is researching cybernetic film theory. He can be reached at [email protected]

Dr. Layli Uddin

Layli Uddin is a social and intellectual historian of modern south Asia, bringing together interdisciplinary questions on religion, class, mass politics and popular cultures. Layli joined the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in 2020. Her project, Red Islam: Socialist Internationalism and Islam in South Asia, 1920-1978, offers a transnational history of Islamic socialism. She completed her PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2016. Her dissertation explored the political mobilisation of subaltern classes in the making and unmaking of Pakistan from the 1930s up to 1971. She is also currently working on her first book based on the PhD, Land of Eternal Eid. Layli also holds degrees from LSE, Harvard University and Oxford University.