Tasneem Arefa Siddiqui

Siddiqui joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in 1984 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1991.^[6]

On 27 March 1995, Siddiqui was promoted to associate professor. She founded the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in 1995 along with Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, Shahdeen Malik, Sumaiya Khair, and Yasmin Ali Haque.^[8][9] She published Transcending Boundaries: Labor Migration of Women from Bangladesh in 2001.^[2] She was promoted to full professor in 2005.^[6]

Siddiqui was part of the committee that drafted Overseas Employment and Migration Act, 2013.^[8] She was a visiting professor at the Winston-Salem State University.^[10]

In March 2022, Siddiqui was invited to attend a consultation session with the Election Commission and academics but did not attend.^[11]

In October 2023, Siddiqui was elected general secretary of Transparency International Bangladesh.^[12] In August 2024, she was included in a committee led by Debapriya Bhattacharya, created under orders of chief advisor of interim government of Bangladesh Dr Muhammad Yunus, to write a white paper report on the economy of Bangladesh.^[13][14]

Tasneem is married to Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, a retired professor of international relations of the University of Dhaka and human rights activist.^[15]