Kamal Ahmad is the Founder and Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Asian University for Women. He also serves as the President & CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and in that capacity spearheads a global effort to mobilize resources for the University.
He served on the staff of the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and UNICEF prior to entering law school. While practicing law with the New York law firm of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson (1996-2000), he also conceived and co-directed the World Bank/UNESCO Task Force on Higher Education & Society (www.tfhe.net). He has also practiced in London with the US law firm of Mayer Brown from 2001-2003. His law practice focused on corporate mergers & acquisitions.
He holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
Dr. Ashok Keshari is the Acting Provost, Dean of Physical and Environmental Sciences, and the Dean for Planning, the Graduate School of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development at AUW. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kanpur, and carried out postdoctoral research at Kongju National University, South Korea. He specializes in Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Geosciences and Remote Sensing & GIS.
He has more than 20 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience and more than 180 papers publications in peer-reviewed international journals and proceedings. Dr. Keshari has authored/edited 10 books. He has supervised 11 Ph.D., 35 M. Tech. and 34 B. Tech. students from Asian, European and Gulf countries, and carried out 15 outreach education programs.
He has raised research funds of about US$32 million, and led three international projects, each with a budget of over US$4.35 million. He has received several scholarly awards and recognitions at national and international levels including from former Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, National Academy of Engineering, Institution of Engineers, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)/NASA, Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) and Korean Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), Outstanding University Faculty, Who’s Who, American Biographical Institute, and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He is a reviewer of most international journals in the area of his expertise and is engaged in a number of premier professional organizations such as the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Association of Environmental Engineering Scientists and Professors (AEESP), International Society of Groundwater for Sustainable Development (ISGSD), Arsenic Task Force-India, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and the Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH).
Dr. Georgia Guldan is the Acting Dean of Biological Sciences and Public Health at AUW. She received both her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Nutrition from Tufts University in the United States. With her specialization in nutrition, she has enjoyed teaching in a new program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she helped build the new Food and Nutritional Sciences Program. Bangladesh's rural families taught her a great deal during her doctoral research in nutrition, and she saw a career move with AUW as a chance to educate Asia's future women leaders as a way to give something back to Bangladesh and its people. She has taught extensively throughout Asia and firmly believes education is an important key to human and national development.
Dr. Sangita Rayamajhi
is the Vice Provost for International Faculty Exchanges and Programs at AUW. She was the first woman in her home country Nepal to receive a Ph.D. in English Literature. She has been teaching literature for over 20 years and her concentration lies in Women's Studies (Issues in South Asia) and Literature. She served as faculty at Tribhuvan University. She has published in a wide array of fields ranging from gender, to politics, to the use of language in the media. Dr. Rayamajhi has produced three monographs, an authored play, and a co-authored book. She has presented her research at over 15 conferences and workshops in the past 10 years, including institutions such as Harvard University, the Fulbright Commission, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women in Kathmandu. Dr. Rayamajhi recently taught courses on Women's Studies and Cross Cultural Studies as a Scholar Rescue Fund fellowship recipient at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in the United States.
