Iftekharuzzaman,
Executive Director
Dr Zaman was previously
Executive Director of the Bangladesh Freedom Foundation (1999-2004). He served
for four years from 1995 as Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic
Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and before that worked with the Bangladesh Institute
of International and Strategic Studies for 19 years, as Senior Research Fellow
and Research Director. He
worked for one year during 1989-1990 with the Department of International Relations
of the University of Tokyo as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Zaman holds degrees
from University of Dhaka and Academy of Economics, Warsaw.
Dr Zaman has been associated
with a number of national, regional and international organizations and forums
including the Washington DC-based Council on Foundations as chair of its international
committee; Governing Council of the Manila-based Asia-Pacific Philanthropy Consortium
(APPC) as Chair; New York-based Synergos Institute as a Senior Fellow, Brussels-based
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) as a member of the Coordinating
Committee.
Dr Zaman’s main areas
of interest are development, politics, security and cooperation in South Asia
in general and Bangladesh in particular, on which he has published extensively
in and outside Bangladesh.