Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar is a Professor of Business Administration at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. The International Education Summit & Awards, 2020 Bangkok, selected Dr. Talukdar as an Outstanding Trained Graduate Teacher for his significant contributions in teaching, research, and curriculum development. Political economy, gender-responsive budgeting and planning, gender and development, decentralization and governance, sustainable development, performance management, talent management, strategic and change management, and leadership and entrepreneurship development are among his research interests. He has authored 2 internationally published books, 2 nationally published books, 5 internationally published book chapters, 15 internationally published scholarly journal articles, 6 nationally published peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 working papers, and 100 OP-ED pieces. He undertook several assignments in Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Carmen Z. Lamagna is a Professor and the Vice Chancellor at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her achievements as an educator and manager may be gleaned from the positions she has held in prestigious international bodies. She was the Treasurer (2011-2014) and Board member (2017-present) of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), Administrative Board Member (2017-present) of the International Association of Universities (IAU), with the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) as an ex-official board member (2010-2018), having served as the first female President from 2008 to 2010, and AUAP Advisory Council member for 2021. She was one of the awardees of the 2006 Presidential Award for Overseas Filipinos, was selected as one of the top 100 women in the world by the International Alliance for Women in 2012 and was awarded as one of the 100 most influential Filipinas in 2014 by the Filipina Women Network. She has inspired women to act in support of women's empowerment and advancement in society as Bangladesh's first female Vice Chancellor. Her extraordinary accomplishments in promoting women through education-based programs, initiatives, or personal action in a developing country like Bangladesh have earned her the most coveted recognition.
Charles Carillo Villanueva is a Professor and the Dean of Business Administration at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also the Director of the University's Quality Assurance Cell/Center. He held various managerial and technical positions in the Philippine government for 31 years, including Chief Educational Planning Analyst, Chief Educational Researcher, and first Director IV, CESO III, of the Office of Planning, Policy, Research, and Information of the Commission on Higher Education, Manila, Philippines. UNESCO hired him as an educational consultant in Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Syria, and Paris, France because of his pioneering work in establishing EMIS and HEMIS in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries. After his early retirement in 2000, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Aklan Catholic College, Philippines. He has authored Training Manuals on EMIS (English and Russian), Training Modules on Educational Planning and Management, Quality Assurance, professional papers in journals, national and international papers, locally and internationally sponsored research, projects, trainers, and more. He's been a speaker at worldwide and national quality assurance conferences and seminars. He's won national and international awards for his excellent work in education, civics, and social work.
Rezbin Nahar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Human Resources Management at the Faculty of Business Administration of American International University Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Previously, she taught at Southeast Business School of Southeast University. Her professional experiences provided her with a range of insights that, over the years, have proven useful in guiding students with projects and assignments. Throughout her career, she devoted herself to various research activities, which have been published in the form of research articles in numerous scholarly journals and proceedings of national and international conferences. Her research interests are broadly concentrated within the fields of management, human resources management, education, and organizational behavioral contexts. development issues.
Farheen Hassan is a Professor and Director of the BBA Program, as well as the Department Head of Management and Human Resources in the Faculty of Business Administration at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is also the Additional Director of AIUB's Institutional Quality Assurance Cell. She also works as an External Peer Reviewer, Trainer, and Resource Speaker as a QA Practitioner in Higher Education (HE). She is an educator of Business Studies with 24 years of teaching and consulting experience in the education, NGO, development, and service sectors. Having taught as a course instructor at the University of Madras, India; and in the BBA & MBA programs of the University of Gavle, Sweden as a visiting lecturer, she has also worked as a consultant on QA with IIEP-UNESCO, Paris; ISAS-IAU-UNESCO; MTC Global, India; and participated in research projects with the British Council.