A team player and self-motivated researcher focused on creating new knowledge and translating vision into action plans. Distinguished service in Bangladesh military and UN peacekeeping missions spanning over three decades in command, staff and teaching assignments. Recipient of UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship (MA) and Graduate School Int’l Student Scholarship of the University of Reading (PhD). Rewarding stints as faculty member at the universities in Bangladesh and England. Proven conceptual knowledge, analytical and methodological skills and publication record which includes books, book chapter and research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Experienced in teaching, mentoring, thesis, and project supervision, editing and reviewing of international journals and bodies like UK Economic & Social Research Council, Sage Open Journal. Solid conceptual, analytical and methodological skills and publication record on security and strategic studies, state fragility, peacekeeping, stabilization, UN system, counterterrorism, human rights instruments, geopolitics, IR theories and area studies Currently serving as visiting research fellow, department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading and Registrar (with an academic portfolio in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) at the American International University- Bangladesh.