South Asia’s Institutional Dilemmas

Akhlaque Haque is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. His work appears widely in major journals and peer-reviewed publications, with a focus on public administration, urban affairs, and public health, and some of these have earned national and international recognition. Dr. Haque serves on editorial boards of several journals and holds leadership positions in national commissions and organizations like NASPAA and ASPA in the United States. He serves as the editor of the Springer South Asian Public Administration (SAPA) Series. As a Senior Fulbright scholar, he has led international training workshops for scholars and senior civil servants from Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka. Dr. Haque is the President of the South Asian Network for Public Administration (SANPA). Yaamina Salman is Professor at the Institute of Administrative Sciences (IAS), University of the Punjab, a pioneer institution in public administration education in Pakistan. She serves as Associate Editor (Developing World) for Public Management Review and is a Board Member of the Center for Service Excellence at the University of Edinburgh Business School and Secretary (Academic Affairs) of South Asian Network for Public Administration (SANPA). Her research interests focus on public sector reform and collaborative governance.Md. Shariful Alam is a former secretary to the Government of Bangladesh and is currently a professor at the Department of Political Science, Dhaka International University. With over thirty years of professional experience, he brings a combined wealth of knowledge from his work with the government of Bangladesh as a career civil servant and several international development organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, UNICEF, DANIDA, ADB, EU, and WFP. His areas of expertise include project management, monitoring, and evaluation. He holds a PhD from the Asian Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Urban Environmental Management from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, a Master of Social Science in Political Science from Chittagong University in Bangladesh, and a Bachelor of Law from the National University in Bangladesh.

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