Team
Dr Jeroen Warner
Dr Jeroen Warner is the Associate Professor, Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University and research Centre (WUR). He did his MSc in International Relations from University of Amsterdam; PhD in Disaster Studies from Wageningen University.
Dr Warner teaches, trains and publishes on domestic and transboundary water conflict, participatory resource management, and governance issues. His main research interests are in social resilience and the disaster studies domain. He has long experience of working in Bangladesh. Dr Warner’s expertise is in Disaster Studies, Politics, Water Management, and Risk Analysis.
Dr Jivanta Schöttli
Dr Jivanta Schottli is Assistant Professor in Indian Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (DCU) and Deputy Director of the Ireland India Institute, also at DCU. She is Principle Investigator for the Project.
She holds a PhD in Political Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Heidelberg University in Germany, a Masters in Economic History and a BSc in International Relations & History, both from the London School of Economics and Politics, UK.
Her research has explored the interconnections between domestic politics and international relations in India's foreign policy, with a focus on geopolitics in South Asia; maritime governance in the Indian Ocean, and the emerging strategic construct of the Indo-Pacific. Publications include Maritime Governance in South Asia (Ed.) World Scientific, Singapore, 2018; Power, Politics and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean (ed) Routledge, London 2014; Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics with Routledge, London 2012. She has written articles for Asian Survey, the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and Irish Studies in International Affairs.
Dr Samiya Selim
Dr Samiya Selim is an Associate Professor and the Director of Center for Sustainable Development (CSD). She has studied and worked in the UK the past 12 years in the field of environment conservation, climate change and sustainable development. Her specialization is in the areas of ecosystem-based management, sustainable livelihoods, socio-ecological systems, climate change adaptation and resilience, ecosystem services, and science-policy interphase.
Dr Selim has two Masters in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Marine Ecology from Animal and Plant Sciences Department, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She also has 10 years working experience in research, project management and policy advocacy in the NGO Sector in Bangladesh and England. She has been engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research projects with DFID, SEI, BUET, and USAID and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Her previous work includes mobilizing hard to reach communities in getting involved in environmental activities – health/nature walks, food growing, conservation volunteering, green jobs, and environmental education. She has also worked in the textile industry in Bangladesh implementing alternate cleaner technology, use of effluent treatment plants and has organized multi stakeholders meeting to discuss issues of environment and health. Dr Selim is interested in pursuing further research on ecosystem based management and building a green economy that focus on solutions for biodiversity, ecosystem and people.
Dr Oliver Scanlan
Dr Oliver Scanlan is a Research Fellow at ULAB’s Center for Sustainable Development. He has a PhD in Politics and International relations from Dublin City University, and a Master’s from the University of Amsterdam, both focusing on customary land and forestry rights in India and Bangladesh. His research interests include how customary tenure regimes relate to climate change resilience and adaptation measures. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Research Group’s Sustainable Security Program, specializing in climate change and its implications for global security.
He is a member of the UN Environment Program’s Geneva-based Science Policy Platform, in which capacity he presented at the Munich Security Conference in 2018. He has worked for several International NGOs and multilateral organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and UN Environment.
Dr Markus Pauli
Dr Markus Pauli is Lecturer in Public Policy and Sustainability in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He has held positions in the Political Science Department at the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS Singapore, Singapore Management University, and Heidelberg University, Germany.
His current research focuses on the political economy of decarbonization in a comparative perspective in Asia and Europe. His earlier research projects focused on financial inclusion and microfinance in India, governance of global food value chains in Southeast Asia, global governance and sustainable development.
Dr Pauli currently holds a Rising Talent Fellowship at Dublin City University, and previously had scholarships from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Heidelberg University, where he did his PhD and from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He studied at the Free University, Berlin and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dr Pauli has co-authored work on India´s democracy, socio-economic development, citizenship, and human security as well as on financial inclusion and collaborative governance for the Sustainable Development Goals. His forthcoming book is titled The Political Economy of Microfinance in South Asia in a Comparative Perspective.
Dr Dik Roth
Dik Roth is a social anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group of Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is specifically interested in anthropology of law, policy and development, development studies, land and water rights and policies, and the politics of natural resources governance. Before re-entering academia, he worked as a consultant on land reform and irrigation development in Indonesia. In the same country he did research on land and water rights, irrigation, ethnicity and regional autonomy.
More recently he became increasingly involved in water issues in South Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh; land and water rights; technology and institutions in irrigation; urbanization and peri-urban areas), as well as the Netherlands (flood risk management policy; ‘Room for the River’). Between 2014 and 2018 he coordinated a project on water conflicts and climate change in four South Asian peri-urban areas in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the UK Department For International Development (DFID) under the research program Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change (CCMCC).
Mita Rahman
Shazzad Khan
Fatima Halima Ahmed
Project advisors
Mita Rahman
Mita Rahman has been working as an operations area manager for Uttaran since 2013. She has been in charge of all activities under the SALE project in Jamalpur Upazila, working in land governance, khas land allocation, digital land surveys, and settlement.
She has participated in many national and international training workshops and seminars on land issues. She has extensive experience in public communications and liaising with government and non-government stakeholders and the media.
Mita is currently working Dumuria, Khulna, managing a project focussed on agricultural food value chain. She holds a bachelors degree from the National University of Bangladesh.
Mamun Rashid
Apurbo Mrong
Aprubo Mrong has been Regional Director for Caritas in Mymensingh for the last six and half years, managing 244 staff across 19 sub-districts, and responsible for an annual turnover of $1.5 million in project spending. During this time he has managed over twenty projects, addressing a wide variety of areas including land rights, gender, biodiversity and conservation, inclusive education, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, nutrition and humanitarian response.
Flagship projects have included the establishment of a United Council of the Indigenous Organizations of Greater Mymensingh (UCGM) as a common advocacy platform for the IP’s of Mymensingh, Bangladesh and the Greater Mymensingh Adivasi Development Cluster (GMADC) in order to strengthen Traditional Social Organizations (TSOs).
Mr Mrong also launched the first ever digital land mapping project in Bangladesh specifically addressing Indigenous Communities and successfully completed community based land demarcation/mapping of around 10000 acres of Indigenous Peoples’ land in 87 villages of across three sub-districts.
Project researchers
Nasrin Siraj
Nasrin Siraj is an anthropologist. She has completed her first MA in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka in 2000. In 2010, she obtained her second MA in Anthropology from Vrije University, Amsterdam, where she is currently doing her PhD.
Nasrin’s work is focussed on mobility and migration, violence and democracy, and the processes of exclusion and inclusion, in the highland border areas of Bangladesh.
She taught at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and in Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her courses covered qualitative research methods, political identities in Asia, and history and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in Bangladesh.
Nasrin is also a documentary film producer. She received training on TV journalism and film making by Thomson Foundation, UK in 1999. She worked as a producer, director and anchor in private TV channels of Bangladesh for almost seven years. Her documentaries include Lukochuri (2018) and Hanra Koyla Khuni Chaina (2012).
Nasrin is an engaged feminist and blogs regularly for the thotkata (sharp tongue) collective of feminist scholars, writers and activists.