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Tasneem Siddiqui is a professor of Political Science, University of Dhaka and the Founding Chair of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, Bangladesh’s premier migration thinktank. She led the drafting of the National Strategy for Internal Displacement in Bangladesh 2021, The National Action Plan 2022, The Overseas Employment Policy 2006 and was a committee member drafting the Migration Act 2013. Her work on climate change and disaster related human mobility, adaptation, internal and international labour migration, and remittances, has been published in numerous national and international journals.
Her pioneering research-led advocacy has directly contributed to lifting a ban on international migration of low-skilled women from Bangladesh, a policy that has benefitted 1,135,000 women migrants since 2004. She is in the Global Editorial Board of the Oxford Journal of Migration Studies, a member of the Advisory Committee of the state-led international initiative, the Platform on Disaster Displacement(PDD) as well as that of International Displacement Monitoring Centre(IDMC), Both based in Geneva. In 2023 she has been elected as the South Asia Representative to the Global Board of Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction. Professor Siddiqui is also a member of Board of Trustees of Transparency International, Bangladesh. [1]
Siddiqui did her bachelor's degree and masters in Social Science at the University of Dhaka in 1980 and 1981 respectively.[2] She did her PhD at Griffith University in 1992.[2]
Siddiqui joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in 1984 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1991.[2]
On 27 March 1995, Siddiqui was promoted to associate professor. She founded the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in 1995 along with Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, Shahdeen Malik, Sumaiya Khair, and Yasmin Ali Haque.[3][4] She published Transcending Boundaries: Labor Migration of Women from Bangladesh in 2001.[5] She was promoted to full professor in 2005.[2]
Siddiqui was part of the committee that drafted Overseas Employment and Migration Act, 2013.[3] She was a visiting professor at the Winston-Salem State University.[6]
In March 2022, Siddiqui was invited to attend a consultation session with the Election Commission and academics but did not attend.[7]
In October 2023, Siddiqui was elected general secretary of Transparency International Bangladesh.[8] In August 2024, she was included in a committee led by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, created under orders of chief advisor of interim government of Bangladesh Dr Muhammad Yunus, to write a white paper report on the economy of Bangladesh.[9][10]
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