Dr. Tasneem Siddiqui
Professor & Chairperson
Short Biography
Tasneem Siddiqui is the Chairperson of Department 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 Migration Studies and a member of the Advisory Committee of the state-led international initiative, the Platform on Disaster Displacement. 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. Recently she has consented to be on the advisory board of Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.