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Faculty

Name: Prof (Dr) K M Baharul Islam

Designation: Director & Professor

Qualification: D.Litt., PhD (Double), MBA, LLM (UK), MA, B.Ed. Post-Doc (AIT Bangkok)

Functional Area: General Management

DOJ: 17 February 2025

Email Id: bislam@imthyderabad.edu.in

Phone: 08414671660

Teaching Interests
Research Interests

Media and Communications
Sustainable Development
Public Policy and Governance
Gender Issues

Journal Papers

Exploring sustainable urban governance: Evolving dynamics, transitions, and ambiguities. V. M. Thoyyib, K. M. Baharul Islam, and A Guha (2024) In Journal of Urban Affairs "A" in ABDC
COVID-19 and human resource management: status, trends and research directions. Sachdeva, L., Jena, L.K., Badhotiya, G.K., Baharul Islam, K.M., Mujtaba, BG and Pal, S. (2024) in Employee Relations, Vol. 46 No. 4, pp. 871-894. Category "2" ABS List
Entrepreneurial intention among female university students: examining the moderating role of entrepreneurial education (2020). Anwar, I., Saleem, I., Islam, K. M. B. and Thoudam, P. (2020). In Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 12(4)., pp.217 - 234.
The Socio-Economic Trajectories and the Performance of Women Entrepreneurship in India. A Khan, K M Baharul Islam S Akhter & A Mitra (2023). Journal of Technology, 11(7), pp. 194-215.
Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021). A Hassan, I Anwar, I Saleem, K M Baharul Islam and S A Hussain. In Industry and Higher Education, 2021, Vol. 35(4), pp. 403–418.
Exploring the status of community information and training for disaster preparation and mitigation practices: An appraisal of 2013 flash flood in Uttarakhand. Khan, A., Islam K. M. B., Mitra, A. (2019). In International Journal of Emergency Management, 15(2), pp. 147-165 (Scopus Indexed)
Predictive analytics for reducing human-animal conflict. Singh, N., Baharul Islam, K.M. (2017). In International Journal of Development and Conflict, 7(2), pp. 81-96. (Scopus Indexed)

Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London (FARAS), in 2020
Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2016-2018)
IPDET Fellowship, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Bern, 2018
International Fellow, KAICIID Dialogue Centre, Vienna, Austria (2015-2016)
Honorary Fellow, US India Policy Institute, Washington DC (USA), Since 2015
Andrew Towl Endowment Fund Scholarship, Harvard Business School, 2013
Development Marketplace Certificate of Recognition, The World Bank (Twice 2003 & 2007)
UK Telecom Academy Fellowship, London, 2004-2006 (for LLM at Strathclyde University)

Education
Service

D.Litt. (English), Kumaun University, Nainital, India (2023)
PhD 2nd (Social Work): Don Bosco University, Guwahati (2015)
MBA, IKG Punjab Technical University (2015)
LLM, University of Strathclyde, UK (2006)
Post-Doctorate, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1999)
PhD 1st (English), Tezpur University, India (1999)
B.Ed., Assam University, Silchar (1997)
LLB, Assam University, Silchar (1995)
MA (English), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (1992)

Training Received:

IPDET, University of Bern, Switzerland (2018)
GloCOLL, Cohort, Harvard Business School (2013)

Professor & Founder Chair, Centre of Excellence in Public Policy & Government, IIM, Kashipur (Jul 2012- Jan 2025)
Dean (Academics), Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur (2019-2021)

Life Member, Indian Law Institute
Life Member, South Asian Network for Public Administration
Member, International Bar Association (UK)
International Association for Media and Communication Research.
Registered with the Bar Council of India as an Advocate (Since 2004)
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (since 2014)

Dr K M Baharul Islam has been teaching and researching in Communications, Corporate Law, Public Policy, and Governance for more than three decades. 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).

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