Maheen Sultan

Maheen Sultan is a Bangladeshi academic and development practitioner.[1][2] She is a Senior Fellow of Practice at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University.[3] She is a member of the Women’s Reform Commission of the Muhammad Yunus-led Interim government.[4][5]

Career

Sultan has worked in the development sector for over 25 years, holding positions in non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, Grameen Bank, and the Government of Bangladesh.[6] Her work has focused on social development, poverty, civil society, community participation, and gender equality.[6]

Sultan worked as a programm officer of the United Nations Development Programme from 1986 to 1990.[7] She then worked as a Programme of Officer Human and Institutional Development at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.[7]

Sultan was a founding member of the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation at BRAC University, which later became part of BIGD.[6] The centre conducts research and policy engagement on gender and social transformation in South Asia.[6] In August 2021, she attended a dialogue with Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi.[8] In September 2022, she spoke on people of chars (river islands) at 'The existing situation of child marriage in char and haor areas and the way ahead', a round table conference organized by CARE Bangladesh and Prothom Alo with the financial backing of the United States Agency for International Development.[9]

Sultan is a member of Naripokkho, a Bangladeshi women’s rights organization.[10] After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, she was appointed a member of the Women’s Reform Commission of the Muhammad Yunus-led Interim government.[11] The commission submitted it's report in April 2025 to Muhammad Yunus.[12]

In June, Sultan spoke at the round table titled "How the Democratic Transformation of the State Can Happen" at the Prothom Alo office.[11] Other participants included Ali Riaz, Badiul Alam Majumdar, and Matiur Rahman.[11] She has been critical of the government of Bangladesh removing Sharifa's tale, a story of a transgender woman, from textbooks following pressure from Islamists.[13]

Selected works

  • Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts*. Co-edited with Srilatha Batliwala. Zed Books, 2014. ISBN 9781780324410.[6]

References

  1. ^ "People". gage.odi.org. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  2. ^ "BRAC Institute of Governance and Development Archives". SuPWR. 2025-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  3. ^ "Ms. Maheen Sultan". EQUIMOB: Inclusive Cities through Equitable Access to Urban Mobility. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  4. ^ "Swiftly implement Women's Affairs Reform Commission recommendations: Yunus". jagonews24.com. Archived from the original on 2025-05-19. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  5. ^ "How the democratic transformation of the state can happen". Prothomalo. 2025-06-23. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Maheen Sultan". BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  7. ^ a b "Experience". LinkedIn. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Tipu Munshi for sensible trade union in RMG sector". Daily Sun. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  9. ^ "Focus on char-haor regions to prevent child marriage". Prothomalo. 2022-09-24. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  10. ^ "A roadmap for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis". The Daily Star. 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  11. ^ a b c "WRC for 600 JS seats". The Daily Ittefaq. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  12. ^ "Recommendation for ensuring equal inheritance rights for women". Prothomalo. 2025-04-20. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  13. ^ Khan, Tamanna (2024-07-05). "'Government should not be swayed by the opinions of a small extremist minority'". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
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