13 Facts About Rounaq Jahan

Rounaq Jahan is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author.

Rounaq Jahan was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977.

Rounaq Jahan founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centres in Bangladesh, in 1973, and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh.

Rounaq Jahan received her MA in political science from University of Dhaka in 1963 and from Harvard University in 1968.

Rounaq Jahan earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1970.

Rounaq Jahan joined the University of Dhaka in 1970, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics, political development, and research methodology.

Rounaq Jahan supervised MPhil and PhD theses till she left the university in 1993.

Rounaq Jahan had been a research fellow at the Chr.

Rounaq Jahan was the head of the Programme on Rural Women, Employment and Development Department at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland from 1985 to 1989.

Rounaq Jahan was the coordinator of the Programme on Integration of Women in Development, United Nations Asia Pacific Development Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for two years.

Rounaq Jahan was a member of the advisory board of Human Rights Watch in New York, the board of trustees of the Population Council, the international council of the Asia Society, and the advisory committee on rural development at the ILO.

Since 1990, Rounaq Jahan is working as a senior research scholar at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University and an adjunct professor of international affairs at School of International and Public Affairs of the university.

Rounaq Jahan is a prolific author of articles published in edited books, academic journals, magazines and newspapers.