Md Shariful Islam is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied "Religious Pluralism and Public Presence in the US" at the University of California Santa Barbara, as a US State Department scholar. He was a "Democracy and American Political Process" fellow of the US State Department in Washington DC. He served as an International Scholar-in-Residence at Monmouth University, New Jersey, US, where he taught global human rights and social justice issues. Mr. Islam served as a guest faculty at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea, where he taught human rights and comparative politics. He has a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong, where he was a Sohmen Human Rights scholar, and a Master of Social Sciences (MSS) in Political Science from the University of Dhaka, with distinction (first class). Mr. Islam has edited “Human Rights and Governance: Bangladesh” (Hong Kong: ALRC, 2013) and authored “Politics–Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance” (Hong Kong: ALRC, 2010).