Dilara Choudhury

Dilara Choudhury is an academic and political analyst. She was the Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and Politics at Jahangirnagar University. She is a trustee member of trustee board of Gono Bishwabidyalay.

Education Choudhury did her PhD at the University of Dhaka in Asian government.

Career From 1989 to 1991, Chowdhury was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. She was a member of the USAID sponsored Democracy Assessment Team in 1992.

Choudhury was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1996 to 1997. She called on the two countries to resolve border disputes through negotiations.

Choudhury praised Nurul Islam Nahid, minister of education, for promoting non-communal education and for the first time in Bangladesh providing textbooks for free of cost to students across the country in 2010. She praised the Awami League government policies while expressing concern about decentralization. In April 2018, she was made a member of the trustee of Gono Bishwabidyalay replacing Professor Halima Khatun. In May 2019, she attended an iftar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for foreign diplomats.

Choudhury attended an iftar party hosted by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in April 2022 for foreign diplomats. She signed a statement demanding the release of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, general secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. She teaches at North South University.