Dr. Emadul Islam

Senior Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI), The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Japan

Dr. Emadul Islam is a Senior Research fellow at the Ocean Policy Research Institute at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan. He is also serving as an Advisor Special Envoy to the chairman, Royal University Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was an adjunct scholar for the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Washington DC, USA. Prior to this, Dr. Islam served as a development expert and researcher in three different organizations, including Transparency International Bangladesh; BRAC; and the Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies at Independent University, Bangladesh for research and evaluation. He was conferred a PhD in Community Development under the Yayasan Khazanah scholarship from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2021. Dr. Islam was awarded the Fulbright Visiting Scholarship in 2022-23 for pursuing Post-Doctoral research at Northeastern University, Boston, USA.