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Ali Riaz (Bengali: আলী রীয়াজ) is a Bangladeshi American political scientist, 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]