Ali Riaz | |
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আলী রীয়াজ | |
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| Head of Constitutional Reform Commission | |
| Assumed office 11 September 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) Dhaka, East Pakistan |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi American |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka University of Hawaii |
| Occupation | Political scientist Writer |
Ali Riaz is a Bangladeshi American political scientist and writer, currently serving as the head of the Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission.[1] He is a Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University[2] where he joined in 2002. Most of his work deals with religion and politics, particularly on South Asian politics and political Islam.[3] He has written extensively on Bangladeshi politics and madrasas in South Asia. He was the editor of Studies on Asia, a bi-annual journal of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (2010–2015). He was also a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington DC during the Fall of 2013.[4] He is a non-resident senior fellow with the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council.[5]
- ^ "Prominent Scholar Ali Riaz Appointed Head of Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission | Law-Order". Devdiscourse. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ "Malone and Riaz named Distinguished Professors". Illinois State University. 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: What's to be Done?". The Progressive Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
- ^ "Ali Riaz". Wilson Center. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "What the new US visa policy for Bangladesh means". Atlantic Council. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.