Professor Dr. Rumana Islam
Profile
Rumana Islam is a Professor of Law at University of Dhaka currently on deputation. She joined Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) in May 2022 as the first female Commissioner of the BSEC for a term of four years. She was nominated as a Panel Arbitrator designated by the Government of Bangladesh to the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in April 2021 for a term of six years. She completed her LLB (Hons) and LLM from the University of Dhaka with first class in both. She earned another LLM (specialisation in commercial law) from the University of Cambridge, UK with a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship in 2006 and obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Warwick in 2015 with Commonwealth Scholarship. During her PhD she also obtained Charles Wallace Bangladesh Trust Doctoral Bursary. Her seminal work has been published as a book titled as "Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Arbitration: Developing Countries in Context" (Springer, 2018). She is also an alumna of Scholars Workshop (2011) of Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School. She has acted as the Assistant Director of Research (Law) (part-time) in Bangladesh Institute for Law and International Affairs (BILIA), from September 2015 to September 2019. She has served as a consultant in different research projects led by the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka; University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and UNDP. She is an affiliated expert of Asia Pacific FDI network and a founding committee member of South Asian Economic Law Network (SAELN).Her areas of interest include international investment law, developing countries in investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, and third world approaches to international law.