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Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury is an Associate Professor in the department of Public Administration. She was awarded commonwealth scholarship  and obtained her PhD in Politics and International Relation from The University of Auckland in 2016. She did her M.Phil. from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2003. She has published  articles in national and international journals in the area of NGOs and development;  Gender and Politics and Policy  Implementation. She has also published a book titled “Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord Implementation in Bangladesh: Promises and Performances”. Prior to her joining as a  faculty member in the university, she worked in international NGOs like Concern, Oxfam UK,  and in  PKSF  an Apex  Micro credit Institution of Bangladesh. Her area of interests includes: NGOs, gender and politics, policy implementation and governance.

Dr. Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury PhD

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Department of Politics and International Relations,  The University of Auckland, New Zealand    2016

Master of Philosophy (M. Phil)  University of Bergen, Department of Organization Theory Norway 2003

Masters of Social Science (MSS)       1994

Bachelor of Social Science (BSS)  1993

Department of Public Administration

University of Dhaka

Major Publications in the last 5 years

“Gender quotas and women’s representation in Parliament: lessons from Bangladesh. in Nizam Ahmed (Ed.) Public Policy and Governance in Bangladesh: Forty Years of Experience,  Chapter 10,Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Books Ltd. 2016

“Who Speaks for Women in Parliament? Patriarchy and Women MNAs in Pakistan.” In Nizam Ahmed (Ed) Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia: ”: Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government Pal Grave Mac Millan. 2018

“ Parents Maintenance Act 2013 of Bangladesh: An analysis of provisions and implementation context strategy” Co-authored with Touhida Tasnim In Hamid E. Ali and Shahjahan Bhuiyan (Eds.), Decision Making, Service delivery and Governance Reform in the Global South, Pal Grave Mac Millan. 2021

“Rhetoric and Reality: Analysing  State of Child Labour, Conventions and Laws in Bangladesh.” In Ali Asker, Amir Ahmed Khuhro and Nazmul Islam (Eds.), South Asia in 21st Century, Ankara, Turkey. (Forth coming)