Professor M. Tariq Ahsan is the Director & Professor at Institute for Teacher Competency and Excellence (ITCE), a study centre of Queen’s University, Canada in collaboration with SSMT. He is the Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a former Professor of Education at the IER at the University of Dhaka where he worked between 2001-2026 in various academic and administrative positions.

Prof. Tariq completed his PhD on teacher preparation for nclusion in education from Monash University, Australia in 2015 under the Australian Government’s restigious Australian Leadership Awards (ALAs) proogramme. He did a Master’s from the Flinders University of South Australia in 2004-05 under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) programme. He has another Master’s on Education and a Bachelor of Education (Honours) degree with high achievement and merit position from the IER, University of Dhaka. Tariq served as the Chairman of the Department of Special Education and Inclusion at IER, University of Dhaka in 2006-2007. Though Dr. Ahsan’s academic career is based in Bangladesh, he put his footsteps regionally and internationally in the areas of Educational Change and Pedagogical Reform towards transformative skills, Digital Transformation in Education, Equity and Inclusion in education, and Teacher preparation for futuristic education through his research, teaching, policy reform initiatives, advocacy and networking. Dr. Ahsan’s diversified career journey represents some unique and solid contribution in the following areas