Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahn​

Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahn​ Distinguished Fellow​ Centre For Policy Dialogue​ (CPD), Bangladesh

Professor Rounaq Jahan taught at Harvard University (1971-72), Dhaka University (1970-1982) and Columbia University (1990-2010); headed women’s programs at UNAPDC, Malaysia (1982-84) and the ILO, Geneva (1985-89) and is currently a Distinguished Fellow of CPD (2010 – present). She was a research fellow at Chicago and Boston universities and the Rajni Kothari Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Society (CSDS) Delhi, India. ​

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Professor Jahan obtained her Ph. D. from Harvard and is the author of several internationally acclaimed books including: Pakistan: Failure in National Integration, New York: Columbia, 1972; Women and Development: Perspectives from South and South-East Asia (co-editor), Dhaka: BILIA, 1979; Bangladesh Politics: Problems and Issues, Dhaka: UPL, 1980 and 2005; The Elusive Agenda: Mainstreaming Women in Development, London: Zed Books, 1995; Bangladesh: Promise and Performance (editor), London: Zed Books, Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization, Dhaka: Prothoma, 2015, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Philosophy, Politics and Policies, (co-author), Dhaka: Prothoma, 2023 and Fifty Years of Bangladesh : Economy, Politics, Society and Culture, (co-editor), London,  Routledge, 2024. ​

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Professor Jahan is the founder-president of Women for Women, Bangladesh, and currently on the boards of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB), Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and the advisory board of Human Rights Watch: Asia, New York. She is a recipient of the Radcliffe Institute Graduate Society award of Harvard University in 2008. ​

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