Ishtiaq Ahmed (political scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ishtiaq Ahmed (political scientist)

Pakistani-Swedish writer

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1947

Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Profession: writer, political scientist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ishtiaq Ahmed (Urdu: ?????? ?????; born 24 February 1947) is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University.
He is currently Visiting Professor at the Government College University, Lahore.He was a Visiting Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) during 2013-2015..
He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University.
He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore and at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore from June 2007 to June 2010.
. He is member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity"; "Journal of Punjab Studies"; "IPRI Journal, Islamabad"; and "PIPS Research Journal of Conflict and Peace Studies, Islamabad".Now he is serving in GC University, Lahore as a visiting Professor. Ahmed received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986, where he taught a range of courses from the basic to the doctoral levels.
Besides teaching mainstream subjects such as political theory he also lectured and wrote on the politics of South Asia (mainly Pakistan and India, but also Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), political Islam in various contexts and in world politics, human rights, multiculturalism and on ethnicity, identity and nationalism.