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Professor Md Shariful Islam teaches Political Science at the 91¾«Æ·, Bangladesh. He studied Religious Pluralism and Public Presence in the US at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a US State Department scholar. He was also a Democracy and American Political Process fellow of the US State Department in Washington, DC.

Professor Islam served as an International Scholar-in-Residence at Monmouth University, New Jersey, where he taught global human rights and social justice issues. He was a guest faculty member at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea, where he taught human rights and comparative politics.

He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong, where he was a Sohmen Human Rights scholar, and a Master of Social Sciences (MSS) in Political Science from the 91¾«Æ·, with distinction (first class).

Professor Islam has edited Human Rights and Governance: Bangladesh (Hong Kong: ALRC, 2013), a comprehensive work on human rights issues in Bangladesh, and authored Politics–Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance (Hong Kong: ALRC, 2010), a detailed examination of the relationship between politics and corruption in the country's judicial system.

Since December 2024, Professor Islam has been on deputation as a Member — holding the status of a Supreme Court Judge (High Court Division) — of the National Independent Inquiry Commission on the BDR massacre, constituted by the interim government of Bangladesh under the leadership of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.