Project Assignments

Major contributions by Professor Imtiaz Ahmed in various projects

Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Violent Extremist Offenders in Bangladesh

Client: The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2021-2023

Resilient Futures for the Rohingya Refugees

Client: University College London (UCL), UK, and Centre for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka

Role: Co-Leader

Duration: 2020-2023

Futures of Higher Education

Client: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Dhaka

Role: Team Leader

Duration: since 2017

Rohingya Journeys of Violence and Resilience in Bangladesh and its Neighbours: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Client: University College London (UCL), UK, and Centre for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka

Role: Co-Leader

Duration: 2019-2021

Bangladesh Peace Observatory

Client: CGS-UNDP Bangladesh

Role: Project Advisor

Duration: since September 2016

Regional Capacity Building: Water Governance

Client: World Bank-IUCN Project

Role: Consultant

Duration: August 2017 – January 2018

Preventing Violent Extremism

Client: USIP-RESOLVE, Washington DC

Role: Team Leader

Duration: July-December 2017

Prevention of Violence and Extremism

Client: UNDP Bangladesh

Role: National Consultant Advisor

Duration: July-December 2016

Vulnerability and Inequality in the Maldives: Understanding Root Causes of Identity Alienation and Radicalization

Client: UN Maldives

Role: Independent Consultant

Duration: August-October 2016

Developing Framework for Political Parties: Chapter in the Bangladesh Constitution

Client: UNDP and the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2015-2016

Reforms of Tertiary Education

Client: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Dhaka

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2015-2016

Governance and Legal Structure

Client: Project Office, Main Campus, South Asian University, New Delhi, India

Role: Expert

Duration: 2008-2010

Mainstreaming the Rohingya Refugee Issue

Client: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2008-2009

Inter-Governmental Steering Committee on the Establishment of South Asian University

Client: Government of Bangladesh

Role: Member

Duration: 2007-2009

State of Democracy in South Asia

Client: Centre for the Studies of Developing Countries, Delhi, India, Ford Foundation, USA and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden

Role: Core Group Member

Duration: 2004-2007

Sustainable Development in South Asia

Client: Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Role: Country Coordinator

Duration: 2005-2006

Afro-Asian Dialogue

Client: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal

Role: Member

Duration: in progress

Democracy and the Role of Political Parties

Client: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2005-2006

South Asian Fellowship

Client: Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

Role: Member, Regional Advisory Panel

Duration: 2001-2003

A Programme for Monitoring Programmes for Poverty Alleviation in SAARC Countries: The Case of Bangladesh

Client: United Nations Office of Project Services, UNOPS-RSU, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Role: Team Leader

Duration: September-November 2003

Foreign Policy of Bangladesh in the New Millennium

Client: The Asia Foundation, USA

Role: Team Leader

Duration: 2001

State and Statelessness in South Asia: Reaping benefits from a reconstructed discourse on state and nationality

Client: UNHCR, Geneva

Role: Consultant

Duration: July-December 1999

Social Mobilization in Kishwarganj Thana: A Survey of Issues with Grass-Roots Evidence

Client: UNDP, Dhaka

Role: Co-consultant

Duration: June 1999