Nadeem Malik is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He served as the Director of the Development Studies program from 2009 to 2014. As a scholar from South Asia, he specialises in various areas, including development, governance, religion and secularism in South Asia, poverty studies, social theory, political and development anthropology, and Art, theatre, and development. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate development studies and anthropology courses at the University of Melbourne since 2008. Currently, he teaches courses in Asian Development at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.