Rounaq Jahan | |
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রওনক জাহান | |
![]() Dr. Rounaq Jahan | |
Born | 2 March 1944 |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1970–present |
Spouse | |
Awards | Radcliffe Award[2] |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD (political science) |
Alma mater | University of Dhaka Harvard University |
Thesis | Pakistan: Failure in National Integration (1970) |
Influences | Abdur Razzaq |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Sub-discipline | Comparative politics, Political theory, Development studies, Gender and development, Feminist theory |
Institutions | University of Dhaka (1970–1993) Columbia University (1990–present) |
Main interests | Gender and development, governance, health, politics of Bangladesh |
Notable works | Pakistan: Failure in National Integration; Women and Development: Perspectives from South and South-East Asia; Bangladesh: Promise and Performance[1] |
Rounaq Jahan (Bengali: রওনক জাহান; born 2 March 1944) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author.[3] A former faculty of the University of Dhaka, Jahan teaches and researches at the Columbia University since 1990.[4] She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977.[5] She founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centres in Bangladesh, in 1973,[6] and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).