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Md Farid Hossain is Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Politics, at Jahangirnagar University (JU), where he has served previously as Lecture. Before joining Jahangirnagar University he was a Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Jagannath University (JnU), and from 2011 to 214.

He obtained his Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) degree in Government and Politics from Jahangirnagar University and two Master’s degrees, one in Government and Politics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, another in Public Policy Analysis from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan under the prestigious Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) Scholarship. He was awarded the prestigious Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship for his Ph.D. study at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), he was a recipient of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Scholarship- 2019 for his study and research visit to the Malmo University and Linnaeus University, Sweden. He also awarded Outbound Reaching Scholarship 2018-19 from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Science, The Education University of Hong Kong, for his outbound research. He has published widely in the areas of, international relations, international political economy, and development in Asia. At present Mr. Hossain is a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS), at the EdUHK, where he has been assigned to the research center - Centre for Greater China Studies (CGCS). His research and teaching interests focus on international relations, international political economy and Chinese soft power.

RESEARCH INTEREST

International Relations, International Political economy, Investment and Capital Flows in South Asia, Chinese Soft Power

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