Rounaq Jahan (Bengali: রওনক জাহান; born 1944) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author. A former faculty of the University of Dhaka, Jahan teaches and researches at the Columbia University since 1990. She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977.She founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centres in Bangladesh, in 1973,and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).Jahan received her MA in political science from University of Dhaka in 1963 and from Harvard University in 1968. She earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1970. About More..