Rounaq Jahan
Rounaq Jahan | |
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রওনক জাহান | |
Dr. Rounaq Jahan | |
| Born | 2 March 1944 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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| Years active | 1970–present |
| Spouse | |
| Awards | Radcliffe Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD (political science) |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka Harvard University |
| Thesis | Pakistan: Failure in National Integration (1970) |
| Influences | Abdur Razzaq |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative politics, Political theory, Development studies, Gender and development, Feminist theory |
| Institutions | University of Dhaka (1970–1993) Columbia University (1990–present) |
| Main interests | Gender and development, governance, health, politics of Bangladesh |
| Notable works | Pakistan: Failure in National Integration; Women and Development: Perspectives from South and South-East Asia; Bangladesh: Promise and Performance |
Rounaq Jahan (Bengali: রওনক জাহান; born 2 March 1944) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author. A former faculty of the University of Dhaka, Jahan teaches and researches at the Columbia University since 1990. She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977. She founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centres in Bangladesh, in 1973, and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).