Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman is a Bangladeshi political scientist who earned a PhD in Political Science at Heidelberg University with 'great distinction' and an MA in International Relations (Peace and Conflict) from the European Peace University, Austria, with an 'excellent' distinction.
He served as a lecturer and research assistant at Heidelberg's South Asia Institute and contributed to the project's global governance and stakeholder participation. He studied economics, sociology, and journalism, and his earlier career worked as a journalist in Bangladesh and for a short period at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
He is a member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS), the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), the Bangladesh Studies Network in Europe, and Heidelberg Alumni International, and a board member of the Bangladesh Development Forum in Hamburg. He holds honorary roles for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Peace Research and European Security Studies (PRESS), and Forscherfreunde—Youth Learning Center Leimen and Stadtjugendrin Heidelberg—an international youth exchange center. He bridges academic research and policy debates on development, political economy, and governance through publications, lectures, and media commentaries.