Shafiqul Islam, Ph.D.

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University

Professor of Water Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Director of the Data Driven Decision Making at Tufts (D3M@Tufts)

Shafiqul (@ShafikIslam) Islam is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of water diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Dr. Islam is the Director of the Water Diplomacy Program and Data Driven Decision Making @ Tufts (D3M@Tufts). Professor Islam maintains a diverse network of national and international partnerships and is engaged in several national and international consulting and training practices in the United States, South Asia, Africa, and Middle East. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Editor of Water Resources Research. Professor Islam is the recipient of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Water Prize for Creativity. He has over one hundred publications and four books on water diplomacy. His first path breaking book on water diplomacy was translated in Chinese by the Science Press of China. His research and practice have been featured in numerous media outlets including the BBC World Service, Voice of America, Boston Globe, The Daily Star, Huffington Post, Nature, and Yale E360. More information is available here and here.