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Dr.
Ahmed Shafiqul Huque is a professor of Political Science at McMaster
University, Canada. His research and teaching interests are in public
administration and management, public policy, development, South Asian
government and politics, governance and climate change. He has published
sixteen books and numerous research articles in leading international journals,
including Public Administration Review, Governance, Public Management
Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, International Journal
of Public Administration, Journal of Comparative and Comparative Politics,
Pacific Affairs, Public Administration and Development, and Asian Survey. Dr.
Huque served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Administration and
Policy, and Contributing Editor for Southeast Asia for the on-line
Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Policy. He has provided consulting
services to various organizations, including the Companies Registry of the Hong
Kong Government, United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Danish International
Development Agency (DANIDA), and assessed grant applications for NORAD and
DFID.
Dr.
Xiaochun Qiao is a professor at the Institute of Population Research, Peking
University, vice president of China Population Association (CPA), the pioneer
member of International Network of Health Expectancy and Disability Process
(REVES), vice president of International Commission of Historical Demography
(ICHD), and editor-in-chief of the Journal of China Population and Development
Studies (CPDS). He got B.S.in Computational Mathematics at Liaoning University
in 1982, and then started working at the population census office of Liaoning Province.
He got both master and PhD degrees in demography at Renmin University of China
in 1987 and 1994, respectively, and conducted post-doc research and to be
research associate at Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA from 1999 to 2001. He was an overseas fellow at the
Institute of Developing Economy, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan in
2003, and visiting professor of Department of Sociology at University of
Waterloo, Canada in 2008. He served as editor-in-chief of the leading journal
of Population Research (in Chinese) from 1994 to 1999 and executive
editor-in-chief of Journal of Population and Development from 2006 to 2020. He
was a council member of IPPF at Asia and Oceania, and was invited by UN, UNFPA,
and WHO as advisors. His research interests focus on population policy,
population Aging, Health Expectancy, Population Census, Population Projection,
and Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences. He has published more than two
hundred articles and fifteen books in both English and Chinese.
Dr.
Liudmila Ivonina is professor of Department of History and Law, Smolensk State
University. Her research areas are the history of international relations, the
images of political leaders and monarchs, the problems of representation of
power in XVII-XVIII centuries. In 1987-1995, she worked as an assistant, senior
assistant and lecturer at the history faculty at the University of Zaporozhye
(Ukraine). In 1991, she received her doctorate degree in Leningrad University
with a dissertation “Anglo-French diplomatic relations during the Thirty Years'
War” (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexander Nemilov). From February
1995, she worked as a lecturer at the State University of Smolensk (Russia). Dr.
Ivonina has taken part in various international congresses and conferences
(Münster 1996; Smolensk 1998, 2001, 2010; Pskov 2007; Reading, UK 2003; Moscow
2003; Mainz, Germany 2009; Kazan, 2010; Baden, Switzerland 2012, Moscow
2015-2016, Saint Petersburg 2016, Strasbourg 2018, Edinburgh 2019, Toulouse
2022, London 2023 and so on). She is the author more than 200 publications
(papers and books).
Dr.
Jin Kwang SO
Dr.
Jin Kwang SO is an Emeritus Professor at Gachon University. He received a
bachelor’s degree in geography education major and economics minor, a master's
degree in urban planning, and a Ph.D. in public administration from Seoul
National University. After working as a professor at the Local Administration
Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved to Kyungwon
University (currently Gachon University) in 1990 and is now serving as an
emeritus professor in the Department of Public Administration. He served as the
dean of the School of Law and the Dean of the Graduate School of Social Policy
at Kyungwon University. He has been dispatched to Hanoi Architectural
University as a professor by KOICA twice (2001-2002, 2008-2009) and to Tirana
Municipal Government of Albania as a policy advisor in 2003. He served as the
Vice President after integrating 4 universities and colleges into Gachon
University since 2012. He served as the 14th president of the Korean Regional
Development Association, and the 11th president of the Korean Association for
Local Government Studies, and served as a consultant to the Korean government
and international organizations for a long time. He has been involved in
Korea's foreign aid projects for over 20 years, and has performed evaluation
and feasibility studies on aid projects for more than 15 developing countries.
In particular, while serving as the 23rd president of the Korea Saemaul Undong
Center, he organized the Saemaul Undong Global League (SGL), which currently
has 46 member countries. Emeritus Professor,
SO published more than 180 academic papers and more than 30 books.
Emeritus Professor, SO received various academic awards for his books and
articles. In 2015, he was awarded a “National Medal” by the Korean government
for his contribution to the academic development of Korea in the field of local
government studies.
Major
General Md Habib Ullah, SGP, SPP, ndc, afwc, psc, MPhil, was commissioned into
the Armoured Corps of the Bangladesh Army on 20 December 1991. He is currently
the Chairman of Sena Kalyan Sangstha (SKS). Throughout his career, he has
attended numerous professional training courses, including the Company
Commander’s Course in China and the VIP/Dignitary’s Protection Course in
Thailand. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Command and Staff College
and has completed the Armed Forces War Course and National Defence Course at
the National Defence College, Bangladesh. He holds an MPhil in Strategic and
Development Studies from the Bangladesh University of Professionals. Major
General Md Habib Ullah has received two peacetime awards: the SPP (Army
Efficiency Medal) and the SGP (Army Medal of Glory), in recognition of his
outstanding professionalism and dedication. With three decades of experience,
he has held various command, staff, and instructional positions in the Army,
including serving as an instructor at the School of Infantry and Tactics,
Principal of a Cadet College, and Commandant of the School of Military
Intelligence and Armour School. He has also served in United Nations
Peacekeeping Missions as a Military Liaison Officer in Timor Leste (UNMIT) and
as a Military Observer in East Timor (UNTAET). Major General Habib has been
actively involved in humanitarian efforts, participating in post-cyclone
management in 1991 and flood relief in 1998.
Dr.
Mohammad Mainul Islam is a professor and former Chairman of the Department of
Population Sciences of the University of Dhaka. He received his Ph.D. in
Demography from Peking University, China. He later completed a Global Health
Research Capacity Strengthening Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill
University, Canada. He got his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Sociology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received the First Prize
of the Academic Excellence Award 2008 from Peking University. Later, he
was named the Nick Simons Scholar of the New Investigator in Global Health
program of the Global Health Council, USA, in 2010. He is a two-time winner of
the New Voices in Global Health program, receiving these accolades in 2014 and 2016
at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. He presented his research at
more than a hundred international and academic conferences worldwide. He has
contributed to over 70 peer-reviewed publications, including the first author
in The Lancet, Lancet Global Health, Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific,
PLOS ONE, BMC Women's Health, and Journal of Population and Social Studies.
Currently, he is a Member of the Scientific Group- ‘Changing Household
Structure, Aging, and Well-being in Western and Southern Asia’ of the Asian
Population Association (APA) between 2022 and 2024. His work broadly focuses on
population and development, reproductive health, and global health. He held the
position of elected Member of the Syndicate–the highest decision-making body of
the University of Dhaka for two consecutive terms between 2010 and 2014.
