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K M Baharul Islam

Also known as: K. M. Baharul Islam

Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad, London School of Economics and Political Science, Kumaun University, Punjab Technical University, Indian Institute of Advanced Study

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0858-7198
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Dr K M Baharul Islam has been teaching and researching in Communications, Corporate Law, Public Policy, and Governance for more than three decades. He is presently the Director of Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad, India. Earlier served as a Professor and the Chairperson at the Centre for Public Policy and Government, Indian Institute of Kashipur. He has been a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics since 2022. He has a D.Litt., two PhDs, MA, MBA, B.Ed., and LLM (Strathclyde, UK) degrees. He did his post-doctoral studies at AIT, Bangkok. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of United Kingdom. Dr Islam is a recipient of the United Kingdom Telecom Academy Fellowship (2004) at Strathclyde University, the Andrew Towl Endowment scholarship at the Harvard Business School (2013), and the IPDET Fellowship at the University of Bern, Switzerland (2018).

Over the years, he has taught at various prestigious institutions globally and worked with the United Nations on various assignments. He served at the UN Commission for Africa (UNECA) during 2003-2006. From 2024 to 2016, he did a major South Asian Regional Capacity Building project funded by The World Bank project on Environmental Impact in South Asia as its Program Director. He piloted a Green MBA programme at IIM Kashipur. He prepared a training module on Telecom Infrastructure Sharing for the United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development, Incheon, South Korea.

Prof Islam has been a Board Member of Educators Without Borders International since 2020. He is a Fellow at the US India Policy Institute in Washington DC and the KAICIID Dialogue Centre, Lisbon. He has worked as a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2016-2018), where he worked on Literature of the Char Areas of Assam. He has published widely with ten books and several research papers/articles to his credit. He is a public speaker, debater, TV commentator, and communication specialist. He participated at the BBC World Debate in 2006. His published works include Sustainable Development Goals and Interreligious Dialogue (2023), Migrant Muse: The Third Space in Assamese Literature (2023), Literature from North-East India (Routledge, 2022), and Business Communication from Wiley (with Bell & Smith, 2022) and Environment Impact Assessment - Precept & Practice (Taylor & Francis, 2021).

Employment

  • Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad Professor and Director
    2025 - Present
  • London School of Economics and Political Science Visiting Professor
    2022 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Advanced Study Fellow
    2016 - 2018
  • Indian Institute of Management Kashipur Professor and Chair
    2012 - 2025
  • South Asia Regional Development Gateway Chairman and CEO
    2007 - 2012
  • Addis Ababa University Associate Professor
    2002 - 2003
  • National Institute of Technology Silchar Lecturer
    1994 - 2002

Education

  • Kumaun University D.Litt.
    2016 - 2023
  • Punjab Technical University MBA
    2013 - 2015
  • Assam Don Bosco University PhD
    2012 - 2015
  • University of Strathclyde LLM
    2004 - 2006
  • Asian Institute of Technology Talkbase (Post-Doctorate)
    1999 - 1999
  • Tezpur University PhD
    1997 - 2000
  • Assam University B.Ed.
    1996 - 1997
  • Assam University LLB
    1993 - 1995
  • Aligarh Muslim University MA
    1990 - 1992
  • Aligarh Muslim University BA (English Honours)
    1987 - 1990

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