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Dr. Tabasum Akseer is Senior Advisor with an international non-governmental organization where she supports research design, implementation, and capacity building across South and Southeast Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Timor-Leste. In this on-call role, she advances rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methods and provides technical leadership on research ethics, survey design, randomized control trials, and mixed-methods analysis.

Previously, Dr. Akseer served as Director of the Policy and Research Department at their Afghanistan office (2017–2022), where she led one of the country ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s largest policy research portfolios and managed national-level capacity-building programs on the use of data and evidence in public policymaking and governance. She has also contributed to policy-relevant research and program design through consulting engagements, including with the World Bank supporting development initiatives in Afghanistan.

Dr. Akseer ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s academic and professional work sits at the intersection of public policy, gender, immigration, security, and human rights. She was a post-doctoral research fellow and consultant at the Centre for International and Defence Policy, ¹ú²ú´«Ã½, and has held teaching roles as a fellow and assistant in Gender Studies, the School of Religion, and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

Dr. Akseer earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from ¹ú²ú´«Ã½, where her dissertation examined the nexus of immigration, security, and gender. She also holds a Master ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s degree in Education and an Honours Bachelor ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s degree in Political Science from Brock University.

Dr. Akseer teaches MPA 848: Immigration Policy in Canada (Winter 2026).