Dr. Shaheen Afroze is Research Director and Head, Non-Traditional Security Studies Division and International Studies Division at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). BIISS is the premier think tank of Bangladesh established on 25 June 1978 by the Govt. of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh for the purpose of undertaking and promoting research and contributing to the development of objective and independent thinking on international affairs, security, and developmental issues. It is a statutory and autonomous institution and is affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Afroze has an M.A degree in Contemporary History from the University of Dhaka. She did her Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Glasgow, UK, under Commonwealth Scholarship. Her major areas of interests are foreign policy and security of small states, non-traditional security studies including human security, peace and conflict studies, countering violent extremism and gender studies. She has edited a number of books and published a large number of articles in academic journals and books and also presented a large number of research papers in academic forums at home and abroad. She was awarded the Freedom Foundation Fellowship under which she produced a monograph titled “Women in Frontal Wars: The Liberation War of Bangladesh 1971.” She is one of the Editors of the BIISS Journal which is a quarterly peer reviewed journal.
Dr. Afroze is also an Academic Advisor in National Defence College, and Armed Forces War Course (AFWC) Mirpur, Dhaka. She served as a member for two terms in the International Research Committee of Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Participant in: August 2018 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes