Tasneem Siddiqui is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Dhaka and Founding Chair of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).
She has extensively published on forced and voluntary migration and climate change-related migration. She led the drafting of the National Strategy for Internal Displacement in Bangladesh 2021, the Overseas Employment Policy 2006, and was a committee member that prepared the draft of the Overseas Employment and Migrants Act of 2013.
She is on the Global Editorial Board of Oxford Journal of Migration Studies and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD).