Mahbuba Nasreen

Mahbuba Nasreen is a professor, former Director and Co-founder of the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies (IDMVS), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her career started as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the same university in 1988. She received the Commonwealth Scholarship in 1991 for pursuing her PhD degree in New Zealand. Her dissertation topic, ‘Coping with Floods: The Experiences of Rural Women in Bangladesh’ (1995), is one of the pioneering studies in the areas of disaster and gender issues. As Professor, she has served the Department of Sociology from 2005 to 2012 and as Director (2012 to 2020) of IDMVS. She is involved in fundamental research on theory, gender, disasters, environment, climate change, education, social inclusion and intersectionality, humanitarian issues, and other areas of social development. For her 3-decade-long contributions in disaster research, Dr Nasreen has been honored with the Mary Fran Myers Award, 2016, Gender and Disaster Network, Natural Hazards Center, Colorado University (Boulder), USA. She has been a Visiting Professor of the University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK) since 2020 and led the ‘Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy and Practices (GRRIPP, 2020 to 2024)’ for the South Asian region in collaboration with UCL, UK. Nasreen is leading the Academia sector of the Bangladesh Preparedness Partnership platform in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Thailand. She has also established the Gender and Disaster Network Bangladesh Country Hub in 2018.