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Sheikh Hasina Awami league prime minister and already famed herself for being chief of indian stooge govt this time appointed an indian born expatriate Gauhar Rizvi as her foreign relation advisor.
Rizvi also served as south Asian representative in Ford foundation in New Delhi. Ford foundation, that has been famously used by RAW infiltrating into american think tank circle.
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.aspNews_ID=155180&sec=1
Correct. You guys don't deserve such intellects. why don't you recommend someone?
University of Virginia Appoints Gowher Rizvi, Renowned Political Scientist, as Vice Provost for International Programs
Dr Rizvi, the immediate past director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will enjoy the rank and status, salary-allowances and other facilities similar to a full minister.
Sources said in the recent times he met the prime minister twice. With the latest appointment, now the panel of advisers to the PM is seven strong.
Rizvi was the vice-provost for International Programs at the University of Virginia, USA from August 3, 2008 to 2009.
He was the Ford Foundation's representative for South Asia, New Delhi office from 1998 to 2003 and deputy director, Governance & Civil Society at New York office from 1995 to 1998. He was the director of contemporary affairs of The Asia Society, New York from 1994 to 95.
Dr Rizvi was the United Nations' Coordinator for Afghanistan, Geneva, Islamabad & Kabul from 1988 to 90. He has worked recently as the consultant of UNDP for reforming civil service change management in the country.
He authored a number of books that include South Asia in a Changing International Order; South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers; Bangladesh: The Struggle for the Restoration of Democracy; Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization; and Linlithgow and India.
He is the founding editor of Contemporary South Asia, an academic and policy studies journal published from Oxford.
Rizvi earned a double first in BA honours and MA from the University of Dhaka while DPhil from Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
He is also married to a christian (going by the name). All the more reason for you to suspect him to be a CIA agent.
Dr. Arthur Garson, U.Va's executive vice president and provost, said, " Gowher Rizvi brings ideal experience to U.Va., being a Rhodes scholar himself, having lived in a number of countries and directed the Ford Foundation in Asia. He has become known at the Kennedy School at Harvard for his ability to draw faculty together, a talent that will surely fit well here."
In a career of more than 25 years across four continents, Rizvi has combined academic appointments with positions in international organizations, not-for-profit institutions and the media. He originally trained as a social scientist, but is an area studies and development expert.
His publications have spanned the disciplines of history, politics, international relations and development economics. His books include "South Asia in a Changing International Order," "South Asia Insecurity and the Great Powers," "Bangladesh: The Struggle for the Restoration of Democracy," "Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization" and "Lord Linlithgow and India."
Rizvi earned a "double first" in B.A. Honors and M.A. from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. He earned a D.Phil. at Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.
He taught for nearly two decades at several British universities, including Oxford University, the University of Warwick and St. Anthony's College. He also served as the Asia-Pacific region head for the Oxford Analytical Daily Brief, an Oxford think tank. He is the founding editor of Contemporary South Asia, an academic and policy studies journal published at Oxford.
Rizvi has also been widely engaged in working to manage conflicts and strengthen democratic institutions and processes in Asia. From 1988 to 1990, he served as special assistant to the United Nations coordinator for Afghanistan, participating in several missions to that country and developing close links with Afghan leaders on both sides of the civil war.
In 1992, he collaborated with the Royal Institute of International Affairs to organize a high-level Anglo-Iranian Roundtable in order to facilitate direct dialogue between senior officials of the two countries.
Since 1986, he has also been involved in promoting unofficial contact and dialogue between South Asian leaders, and has both organized and participated in nongovernmental monitoring of elections in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Rizvi joined the Ford Foundation in 1995 as the deputy director for governance and civil society with responsibilities for the foundation's work worldwide. He became the representative to New Delhi in 1998. The New Delhi office, with a grant-making budget in excess of $56 million in 2001, is the foundation's oldest and largest overseas office. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Rizvi was the director of contemporary affairs at the Asia Society in New York, the leading public education organization dedicated to increasing American understanding of peoples and cultures throughout Asia.
Rizvi succeeds Dr. Leigh Grossman, professor of pediatrics and chief of the division of pediatric infectious disease, who has held the post since 2003.
Rizvi is married to Agnese Barolo. They have one daughter, Maya, a 2008 graduate of Vassar.
