Distinguished Lecturer
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Aug 2023 - Present
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Raza Ahmad Rumi previously worked as Editor At Large at The Friday Times and Consulting Editor/ News Editor at The Friday Times. Raza Ahmad Rumi holds Msc, Social Policy And Planning In Developing Countries from The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse).
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About Raza Ahmad Rumi
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a policy analyst, international development practitioner and an author. Presently, he is Distinguished lecturer at Roosevelt House Public Policy institute at Hunter College, New York. Earlier, he was the Director, Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College (2018-2024). He is also Faculty at Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University. During 2015-2017, Raza taught courses in journalism and writing departments at Ithaca College. In 2016, he taught at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and a member of think tank at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University. Raza is also editor of The Friday Times, The Edge and Ideas and Future. He is also the founder of NayaDaur Media. Raza edited Pakistan's leading newspaper Daily Times, and also worked as a TV broadcaster in Pakistan before he moved to the United States in 2014. Raza has been a fellow at New America Foundation (2014); United States Institute of Peace (Sept 2014-March 2015). He remains a senior fellow at the Jinnah Institute in Islamabad.Raza was also a commentator and has contributed to Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, New York Times, The Diplomat, Fair Observer, CNN and Al Jazeera, Daily O, Scroll India, The Hindu and Indian Express. His columns for the Express Tribune are archived at www.razarumi.com.Prior to his foray in journalism, Raza worked as a governance and capacity development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, the Government of Pakistan, a number of Pakistani nongovernmental organizations, and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. He has advised UNICEF, UNDP, UNOPS, World Bank, UKAid and other international development organisations. His areas of expertise include governance, social development and security and communications.He holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Masters in Social Planning, both from the London School of Economics. He has also been trained in law and public administration at the Civil Services Academy in Lahore. Raza is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent book Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins. He co-edited a volume of essays entitled Rethinking Pakistan that was published by Anthem Press in September 2020.
Listed skills include Public Policy, Policy, Civil Society, Human Rights, and 46 others.
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29 roles · 34 years
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Distinguished Lecturer
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Editor At Large
Current
Nov 2008 - Present
Consulting Editor/ News Editor
Current
Oct 2011 - Present
Oct 2008 - Oct 2011
Founding Editor
Current
Naya Daur Media
Naya Daur Media (NDM) is a bi-lingual progressive digital media platform aiming to inform and educate Pakistanis at home and abroad. Subscribe our channel: https://www.youtube.com/nayadaurpkNaya Daur Media on Facebook: https://facebook.com/nayadaurpk/Naya Daur Urdu on Facebook: https://facebook.com/nayadaurUrduNaya Daur Media on Twitter.
Sep 2017 - Present
Faculty, Brooks School Of Public Policy
CurrentTeaching: Institutional Reform in Developing Countries; Rethinking International Development' (Alternative Paradigms, Practices and Challenges); and Policy writing - for Masters of Public Administration degree.
Aug 2016 - Present
Research Fellow
Current
Judith Reppy Institute For Peace And Conflict Studies
The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary program devoted to research and teaching on the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and more generally, instances of collective violence.
Jun 2016 - Present
Research Fellow
Current
Aug 2015 - Present
Writer
Current
Dec 2014 - Present
Contributor To South Asia Channel
Current
Jun 2014 - Present
Columnist/ Analyst
Current
Mar 2010 - Present
Commentator
Current
Oct 2007 - Present
Director, Park Center For Indepedent Media
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM), launched in 2008, is a center for the study of journalism-oriented media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Center examines the impact of independent media on journalism, democracy, society, and participatory cultures. The US independent.
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Editor
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Scholar In Residence/Faculty Honors Program
Teaching courses on South Asia studies, Journalism and Public PolicyParticipating in campus colloquia and conferences Engagement with the IC schools: Humanities & Sciences, Communication, Business, Music, and Health Sciences & Human Performance. Research & Wiriting.
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
Visiting Research Fellow
Undertook research on Pakistan's Democratic Evolution.Spoke at panels on religious extremism and culture.Interacted with think tanks, universities and policy-influencers in Washington DC.
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Gallatin Global Faculty
Teaching "Writing Dissent in the Age of Mass Media"Course Description: South Asian region has been home to numerous literary and political movements that challenge the state and orthodox forces such as organized religion and rigid social hierarchies. Furthermore, freedom of expression in the region has been variously understood as a “Western” value and a.
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Senior Expert In Residence
Undertook research on internal security of Pakistan. Participated in public events and colloquia at USIP.Drafted and published: 'Charting Pakistan’s Internal Security Policy' Undertook research on Pakistan's Internal SecurityThe report reviewed the progress until February 2015 on Pakistan’s counterterrorism policy frameworks and highlights related key.
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Executive Director
Justice Network Pakistan
INSAF(Justice) Network Pakistan (INP) is an alliance of 27 civil society organizations working in 102 districts with advocacy and project implementation experience in all 4 provinces, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan. INP’s partnership with a variety of community organizations and the government functionaries remains its key strength as it offers a deeper and.
Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
Anchor/Analyst
Express News Tv
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Director, Policy & Programmes (Currently Sr. Fellow)
Oversight, design and implementation of public policy programmes and initiatives relating to Open Democracy, devolution, strategic and security analysis, counter-extremism. Key areas of work include: India-Pakistan Track II dialogue; Policy debates on Devolution; Human Rights, Extremism Watch; Minorities' report; Economic and Budgetary Analyses; Media.
Apr 2012 - Jan 2014
Tv Show Host/Analyst
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Governance And Capacity Development Specialist
Managing Regional Technical Assistance Projects: Dissemination and Pilot testing of Tool-Kits on Citizen Report Cards and Continuous Improvement and Benchmarking Techniques (in Pakistan, India, Indonesia and the Philippines); Institutionalizing Civil-Society Participation to Create Local Pro-Poor budgets (in Pakistan, Indonesia and the Marshall Islands).
2002 - Jun 2012
Governance Specialist
- Project Design, Management and results-based Monitoring: (i)Nepal: Support to Anticorruption Institutions;(ii)Bhutan: Support for Anticorruption and Good Governance at Local Level; (iii)Bangladesh: Good Governance.
- Governance and Anticorruption Risk Assessments.
- Knowledge Management
- Sector Governance Work
Jan 2008 - Apr 2012
Program Management/Policy Adviser
DFID: Punjab Public Resource Management-Technical Assistance Management Agency (TAMA), Lahore, Pakistan (ongoing) - provide technical support to project management and ensure compliance and quality; develop individual and institutional capacity better to manage projects within the provincial government; provide support to line departments in problem.
Nov 2008 - Jul 2011
Civil Affairs Officer
Public Services: Management of Municipal Registration Offices.Legal Affairs: overseeing the contracts, agreements of the Municipality. Budget & Finance: Finance functions in accordance with the UN regulations and procedures. Peacekeeping and political functions – involvement in Municipal elections and transition to local self government, support of local.
2000 - 2002
~2 yrs
Assistant Commissioner
- Law and order maintenance as the sub divisional magistrate;.
- Judicial work as sub-divisional magistrate & magistrate first class, as revenue judge, as the trial court for forests, fisheries, wildlife, petroleum adulteration, as the traffic magistrate; Conducted criminal and.
- Local Justice: Local conciliation and mediation in divorce and family cases as the Administrator of Municipalities.
- Collector of state revenues and registrar of the land records, supervision of agricultural extension, and infrastructure;
- Administrator 6 urban Municipalities in Punjab, Pakistan: Collection of local taxes and fees, strengthening and improvement of local infrastructure, sanitation and public health & hygiene, street lighting.
- Facilitator and co-ordinator of socio-economic area development.
1994 - 2000
~6 yrs
Social Scientist
- Institutional Development at the grassroots level; involvement in the formation, nurturing and monitoring of the village-based organisations fostered by AKRSP across northern Pakistan.
- Evaluation studies of projects and programmes of AKRSP. Environmental/gender impact assessment, village studies and developing institutional maturity index,
- Participatory rural appraisals, monitoring of physical socio-economic development indicators,
- Conducting gender sensitisation workshops and mainstreaming of gender concerns into planning and programming of AKRSP.
1992 - 1994
~2 yrs
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Raza Ahmad Rumi education
Msc, Social Policy And Planning In Developing Countries
The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse)
Bsc (Econ), Economics - International Trade & Development
The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse)
Hsc, English, History, Economics
Aitchison College Lahore
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Raza Ahmad Rumi has worked for The City University Of New York, The Friday Times, Naya Daur Media, Cornell University: Mpa Program - Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School Of Public Policy, and Judith Reppy Institute For Peace And Conflict Studies.
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Raza Ahmad Rumi holds Msc, Social Policy And Planning In Developing Countries from The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse).
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