Dr. Sufia Ahmed is a National Professor and former Chairperson and Professor of the Department of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Dhaka. Dr. Ahmed served as visiting Professor at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey, and also as a Fullbright Visiting Professor at Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Besides attending numerous conferences and seminars and contributing learned papers on gender issues, she represented her country as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1969 and 1979, and to the UNESCO General Conference in 1983.