Ishtiaq Ahmed (political scientist)


Ishtiaq Ahmed is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Government College University, Lahore.He was a Visiting Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences during 2013–2015.. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore from June 2007 to June 2010..
He is member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity"; "Journal of Punjab Studies"; "IPRI Journal, Islamabad"; and "PIPS Research Journal of Conflict and Peace Studies, Islamabad".Now he is serving in GC University, Lahore as a visiting Professor.
Ahmed received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986, where he taught a range of courses from the basic to the doctoral levels. Besides teaching mainstream subjects such as political theory he also lectured and wrote on the politics of South Asia, political Islam in various contexts and in world politics, human rights, multiculturalism and on ethnicity, identity and nationalism.

Education

He has a PhD in Political Science, from Stockholm University. He secured the first class first position in the 1970 Supplementary Examination in Political Science, Punjab University, Lahore. He won the Mehta Chunni Lal Gold Medal for Highest Marks in History by a student of F. C. College in 1968. He received Honorable Mention every year from F. C. College during 1964–68.

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