Bashir Ahmed

Bashir Ahmed Professor, Department of Government and Politics, Jahangirnagar University, actively engaged in teaching and research for the last 24 years. His research areas include Governance, Corruption and Parliamentary effectiveness already have attained scholarly contribution in the respective fields. In addition to his academic career in teaching he has been extensively involved in leading few projects on parliamentary studies, impact assessment, anti-corruption commission and capacity building of government institutions. Professor Ahmed was affiliated to South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg and the Centre for Conflict Studies, USA as Visiting Scholar . He has number of publications on Governance, Democracy, Corruption and development to his credit. Prof. Ahmed is the former Dean of the Faculty of Law at Jahangirnagar University. He studied at the University of Lund, Sweden and University of Heidelberg, Germany respectively. Prof. Ahmed's analytical annotation on emerging issues regularly appears in the Financial Express, the Daily Independent and South Asia Monitor (English dailies of Bangladesh and India).