Executive Board

Professor R. Jayachandran is Senior Professor (Academic Level 15) in the Department of Hindi, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India, and the former Director of the School of Indian Languages. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Credit and Semester System (CSS) of the University of Kerala, and he has served the University as Registrar (Officiating) and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Officiating). His special interests are media and crime, and literature on crime and victimization. He completed his master's degree, MPhil and PhD at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi, securing university ranks for his master's and postgraduate diploma programmes. He has more than two and a half decades of teaching experience and more than twenty years of research experience. His awards include the First Hindi Ratnakar Award (2016) from the Indo-Russian Cultural Society (Disha), Moscow; the highest research grant award (2014) of the University of Kerala; the P. K. Das Memorial Best Faculty Award (2013) from the Nehru Group of Institutions, Coimbatore; and the Hindi Award (2012) from the Rashtriya Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Thiruvananthapuram.

Professor Ali Wardak is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, United Kingdom. His research focuses on comparative crime and justice, criminological theory, and the relationship between state and non-state justice systems. From 2006 to 2008 he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kabul and co-authored the 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report, which proposed a hybrid model for the post-Taliban justice system. He collaborated with Professor John Braithwaite on the Peacebuilding Compared project, which studies what works in peacebuilding across 48 countries. A law graduate of Kabul University, he obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, in 1995. His books include Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland (2000), Transnational and Comparative Criminology (2005) and Race and Probation (2006). He speaks, reads and writes Pashto, Dari / Persian, Arabic and English.

Dr. Fasihuddin is the founder of the Pakistan Society of Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of the Pakistan Journal of Criminology. He holds an MBBS, an LLB and an MA in Political Science with a gold medal. A senior officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, he is the author of Expanding Criminology to Pakistan. He has presented his field experience at international conferences in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Thailand, Nepal, China and Japan, and is regarded as a pioneer of criminological studies in Pakistan. His special interests are police reform, the rights of women and children, and policing in Pakistan.

Dr. H. P. K. N. Hewawasam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, where she completed her honours degree, MPhil (on criminal suspects) and PhD (on financial crimes in the corporate sector). She has authored four books on crime victims, crimes and social problems, suspects and their rights, and the evolution of money and financial crime. She is a visiting lecturer at national institutions including the Sri Lanka Police, the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, the University of Kelaniya and Kotelawala Defence University, serves on national committees of the Sri Lanka Police, and is a resource person for television, radio and newspapers.

Dr. Aziz Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), USA. He was educated in Bangladesh, Germany, the Philippines and Canada. Dr. Rahman is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in research, teaching and community development. Before joining TAMIU as a faculty member, he was an Associate Professor of Criminology and Police Science at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. In Canada, he also taught at the University of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto. His primary research interests include immigrant integration, policing, terrorism, human trafficking, violence and victims. Dr. Rahman earned his PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba, Canada, with prior master's degrees in Sociology (Bangladesh), Regional Development Planning (Germany and the Philippines) and Criminology (Canada). His doctoral research focused on the labour market integration of resettled refugees in Canada. He has received several competitive research grants, including the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship and the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. His scholarly work includes peer-reviewed articles, books and conference presentations on topics such as refugee integration, ethnic violence, terrorism and gig work. He recently co-edited Criminology and Criminal Justice: An Introduction to support criminology education in Bangladesh. He has served as Executive Editor of the Bangladesh Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Professor Yubaraj Sangroula is Professor Emeritus at Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal, where he teaches jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. He served as Attorney General of Nepal in 2011, convened the Government of Nepal's High-Level Police Reform Commission, and has been an advisor to the Ministry of Home Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at Renmin University of China and at other universities in South Asia. He earned his PhD from the University of Delhi in 2007, with a dissertation on the criminal justice system of Nepal, covering interrogation, extrajudicial confessions and fair trial. He has published research projects, journal articles and books on jurisprudence, human rights, criminal justice and constitutional law. His honours include the Ashoka Fellowship (1998), the National Youth Award (1999), the Best Citizen Honour (2000), the Nepal Jaycees Youth Award (2002), the Teaching Excellence Award (2012), the SAARC Law Scholar Award (2012) and the Nepal Education Leadership Award (2017).

Ibrahim Huzam is a Maldivian professional with experience in human rights education, public awareness, media engagement and diplomatic affairs. He previously worked in the Education and Media Department of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM), where he served as a coordinator from October 2008. His responsibilities included organising awareness programmes and conducting workshops for senior officials across the Maldivian islands. He also contributed to the development of human rights education materials, public awareness campaigns and media initiatives promoting understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, he has written newspaper articles on social and political issues affecting Maldivian society. He has also served as First Secretary (Political) at the High Commission of the Republic of Maldives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His academic background is in psychology: he holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology through the joint degree programme of Sunway University College, Malaysia, and Lancaster University, United Kingdom.