Prof K M Baharul Islam is a development communication specialist who has been working for more than thirty years in the areas of communications, development, public policy and governance issues. He is a Professor of Communications and the Chairperson of the Centre for Public Policy and Government at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He taught in various universities in Asia and Africa and served on several assignments with the United Nations. His major works include e-Government Strategy and the National ICT Policies for many African countries.
Prof Islam has a D.Litt., two PhDs, MA, MBA, LLM and B.Ed. Degrees. He did his post-doctoral study at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He studied at AMU Aligarh, Tezpur University, Strathclyde University (UK), Harvard Business School and the University of Bern, Switzerland.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, KAICIID Dialogue Centre, Vienna and the US-India Policy Institute at Washington DC. He has published widely and has several books and research articles to his credit. His latest works include a volume on Literatures of the Northeast from Routledge and a major textbook on Business Communication from Wiley.