Professor Salma Akhter

Salma Akhter is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka. She obtained her Bachelor (Honours) and Master degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka with First Class. As a Commonwealth Scholar she earned her MPhil degree in Sociology and Politics of Development from University of Cambridge, UK. 

She presented numerous papers in international seminars in USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Asia and chaired many sessions of conferences at home and abroad. She was in the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, USA and Canada in 2001. She was a member of the Conference Academic Committee of the ISTR Asia Pacific conferences in Malaysia (2021), Thailand (2019), Indonesia (2017) and Dissertation Award Committee, of ARNOVA’s 31st Conference, 2002, Montreal, Canada.  She holds membership of several professional bodies affiliated in UK and USA, Canada, Bangladesh. 

She worked as a consultant for UN Agencies and Development Partners including UNDP, World Bank, ILO, UNCDF, SDC, Royal Norwegian Embassy, DANIDA, DFID, ITDG as Sociologist, Anthropologist, Gender specialist. Her areas of interest include Gender, Education, Health, Microcredit and NGOs, Poverty, and WATSAN, Local Governance, Indigenous community issues in Bangladesh.