Meghna Guhathakurta

Meghna Guhathakurta is a retired professor of international relations of the University of Dhaka. She is the executive director of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh. She is a member of the executive committee of the Ain o Salish Kendra. She is a member of the advisory panel of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Human Security & Governance.

Guhathakurta's father, Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War. She was a member of the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh. His father was shot by Pakistan Army soldiers at the teachers dormitory of the University of Dhaka along with ANM Muniruzzaman on 25 March 1971 during Operation Searchlight. After Guhathakurta finished her master's degree at the University of Dhaka, she completed her at the University of York.

Career Guhathakurta joined the University of Dhaka in 1984 in the Department of International Relations.

Guhathakurta retired from the University of Dhaka in 2007.

Guhathakurta called for attention to the Attacks by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh on secular activists and called on the government to not view them as isolated attacks. She presented at the LSE-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit in 2018.

Guhathakurta is an associate editor of Sage's Action Research Journal. The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics - The World Readers with Willem van Schendel (2013) Gendered Lives, Livelihood and Transformation: The Bangladesh Context (2017)