Ali Riaz

For Iranian politician, see Seyyed Ali Riaz.
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Professor Ali Riaz

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]

  1. ^ "Prominent Scholar Ali Riaz Appointed Head of Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission | Law-Order". Devdiscourse. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Malone and Riaz named Distinguished Professors". Illinois State University. 11 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: What's to be Done?". The Progressive Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Ali Riaz". Wilson Center. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  5. ^ "What the new US visa policy for Bangladesh means". Atlantic Council. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.