Mridul Chowdhury: After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, Mridul worked for the Center for International Development at Harvard University, the Ministry of Planning in Bangladesh and UNDP. He also co-founded an NGO in Bangladesh and served as its Executive Director which won international awards for empowerment of rural women using information and communication technologies. He is now a Dean’s Fellow Masters student of Public Administration (International Development) at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Naina Shehzeen Ahmad: Naina graduated with a B.S in Biology and in Chemical Engineering, with a Biomedical Engineering minor, in June 2003, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and with a Masters degree in Biomedical and Biological Sciences from the Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge. Currently she is working as a consultant with the Life Sciences Division of Simon-Kucher and Partners, a global strategy and marketing consulting firm.

Mahrukh Mohiuddin: Mahrukh studied Business Administration for her undergraduate at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before joining her graduate program at Tufts for Masters in Public Health, she worked at a social marketing/health communication firm for two years in Bangladesh. Mahrukh is currently working with an international non-profit organization (JSI Research and Training Institute) in Boston.

Dr. Jalal Alamgir is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His areas of specialty are globalization and democratic politics, perception of rivalry and competition, and violent and non-violent representation, especially through political and economic changes. His papers have appeared in International Studies Review, Issues and Studies, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Brown Economic Review, and Journal of Social Studies. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Globalism, Rivalry, and the Continuity of Economic Openness. Prior to joining UMass, Dr. Alamgir served as Associate Editor of International Studies Review, and held research appointments at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University, and the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. Dr. Alamgir has also consulted for strategy consulting firms and for the United Nations. Dr. Alamgir holds a Ph.D. from Brown University.