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Meghna Guhathakurta

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Meghna Guhathakurta is executive director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB), a research support organization based in Dhaka, which specializes in action research with marginalized communities. From 1984 to 2007, she taught International Relations at the University of Dhaka. Her field of specialization has broadly been international development, gender relations, and South Asian politics. She is widely published on these issues. She serves as associate editor of the Journal of Social Studies published from the Centre for Social Studies in Dhaka. She is advisor to the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission, an advocacy watchdog, and has been project coordinator of RIB’s project in the official Rohingya camps as implementing partner of UNHCR since 2011. Guhathakurta graduated from the University of Dhaka and received her Ph.D. in politics from the University of York, United Kingdom.
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