Mohammad Zaman holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Manitoba, 1988). Dr. Zaman has taught in universities in Bangladesh, Canada, China and the United States. He is an internationally known development/resettlement specialist with over 30 years of work experience in many countries in Asia and Africa. Currently, Dr. Zaman is an advisory professor at NRCR, Hohai University, Nanjing, China. He has authored numerous publications in scholarly journals in anthropology and area/development studies. His most recent edited book (co-editors Reshmy Nair and Shi Guoqing) is titled Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights (Routledge, 2022).
Robert Anderson completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1971 and began working with refugees in Bangladesh in 1972. He has published widely about rice cultivation systems, tropical forestry and botanical gardens, indigenous peoples and international development capital (e.g. World Bank) and the nuclear history of South Asia (he was for many years a reviewer of new books on nuclear affairs in South Asia in the journal Pacific Affairs). He has been studying Rohingya affairs since 1973.
Kawser Ahmed received Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Manitoba, 2017) and completed his SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship from University of Winnipeg in 2019. He currently teaches at Political Science department of University of Winnipeg and Conflict Resolution at the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), Winnipeg, MB. He has led numerous research projects from his not for profit, charitable think tank—CRRIC in the past. It includes multi-year funded project from Public Safety, Canada, and Department of Heritage, Canada. He also implemented several education projects from Rohingya female adolescents in Bangladesh refugee camps.