David Maxim Triesman,Baron Triesman is a British politician,merchant banker and former trade union leader.
Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi writer,physician,feminist,secular humanist,and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion;some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. She has also been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region,both from Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Lieutenant General Sahabzada Mohammad Yaqub Ali KhanSPk was a Pakistani politician,diplomat,military figure,linguist,and a retired general in the Pakistani Army.
Abul Fateh was a Bangladeshi diplomat,statesman and Sufi who was one of the founding fathers of South Asian diplomacy after the Second World War,having been the founder and inaugural Director of Pakistan's Foreign Service Academy and subsequently becoming Bangladesh's first Foreign Secretary when it gained its independence in 1971. He was Bangladesh's senior-most diplomat both during the 'Liberation War' period of its Mujibnagar administration as well as in peacetime.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies,founded in 1949,is the sole postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK.
James Eugene Goodby is an author and former American diplomat.
Amiya Kumar Bagchi is an Indian political economist.
Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai,of Elenkath, KCIE,CBE,popularly known as "Rag",was an Indian civil servant. He served as the first Cabinet Secretary in independent India,1950–1953,and as the second Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs,He also served as India's Ambassador to France.
Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan,was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering,for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Commonwealth of Nations,often simply referred to as the Commonwealth,is an international association of 56 member states,the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat,which focuses on intergovernmental aspects,and the Commonwealth Foundation,which focuses on non-governmental relations among member states. Numerous organisations are associated with and operate within the Commonwealth.
Sir Brian Leon Barder was a British diplomat,author,blogger and civil liberties advocate.
Subimal Dutt,OBE,ICS was an Indian diplomat and ICS officer. He served as India's Commonwealth Secretary and later as Foreign Secretary under Jawaharlal Nehru and was also India's ambassador to the Soviet Union,Federal Republic of Germany and Bangladesh.
Ali Riaz is a Bangladeshi American political scientist and writer. He is a Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University where he joined in 2002. Most of his work deals with religion and politics,particularly on South Asian politics and political Islam. He has written extensively on Bangladeshi politics and madrasas in South Asia. He was the editor of Studies on Asia,a bi-annual journal of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (2010–2015). He was also a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington DC during the Fall of 2013. He is a non-resident senior fellow with the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council.
Sir Ronald Michael Sanders is an Antiguan Barbudan diplomat,academic,former broadcast-journalist,and the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and to the Organization of American States (OAS) since 2015. He holds the unique distinction of being the first person,since the OAS enlarged its membership in 1962,to serve as Chairman of the Permanent Council of the OAS for an unprecedented three terms. He completed his highly successful third term on December 31,2023,having played a widely recognized role in guiding the work of the Permanent Council in the peaceful transition of government in Guatemala on 14 January 2024.
Jayanta Kumar Ray was an Indian historian and National Research Professor.
The History of Indian foreign policy refers to the foreign relations of modern India post-independence,that is the Dominion of India (from 1947 to 1950) and the Republic of India (from 1950 onwards).
Rabab Fatima is a Bangladeshi diplomat. She is currently the high representative of the United Nations for the least developed countries,landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (UNOHRLLS). Between 2019 and July 2022,she served as the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. Prior to this,she was Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan. On 1 February 2022,she was elected the Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).
Bashabi Fraser is an Indian-born Scottish academic,editor,translator,and writer. She is a Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Literary Studies (ALS),Scotland,and a former Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She has authored and edited 23 books,published several articles and chapters,both academic and creative and as a poet.
