Fahim Quadir

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ABOUT FAHIM QUADIR

Dr. Fahim Quadir is the Vice-Provost and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) and Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen\'s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining Queen\'s, he served as Interim Dean and Associate Vice-President of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University in Toronto and held academic positions at Queen’s University at Kingston, St. Lawrence University in New York, and the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He also taught International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. From July 2013 to May 2017, Dr. Quadir served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. He is the founding director of York University’s Graduate Program in Development Studies and its undergraduate program in IDS.Professor Quadir specializes in International Development, International Relations and International Political Economy. His current research focuses on South-South Cooperation, aid effectiveness, Southern aid providers, good governance, civil society, and human development. Dr. Quadir has held many grants and fellowships, including Fulbright, SSHRC, IDRC, SSRC (USA) and Killam. He has supervised numerous graduate students, designed and taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses and received the University-Wide Teaching Award for teaching excellence from the full-time faculty category.He has edited/co-edited five books and published extensively in various international peer review journals relating to issues of democracy, development and aid. He served as President of the Canadian Consortium for University Programs in International Development and as Board Member of the Canadian Association for the Society of International Development. Professor Quadir is also a Board member of a number of community organizations and research institutes and has participated in several large-scale development and research projects in different parts of the world.