Bangladesh's Gen-Z-Led Monsoon Revolution: Its Origins and Impact Eight Months Later

Name: Bangladesh's Gen-Z-Led Monsoon Revolution: Its Origins and Impact Eight Months Later
Start: 2025-04-22T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-22T14:00:00-04:00
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by Economic and Political Development Concentration

Academic EPD South Asia

Tue, Apr 22, 2025

1 PM – 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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On August 5, 2024, the regime of Sheikh Hasina that had been in power for 15 years fell due to student protests and the government's violent but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to suppress them. Three days later, an Interim Government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus came to power to rebuild the nation and set the stage for the first truly democratic elections in the world's eighth most populous nation since 2008. Alex Counts, a long-time associate of Professor Yunus' who was there during the revolution and has visited the country twice since then, and who lived in Bangladesh for six years and speaks Bengali, will share his experiences leading up to and during the revolution, and since. He will address criticisms of the Interim Government as well as describe some of its successes, while previewing what is likely to come next, especially since a student-led political party was recently formed to contest upcoming elections.

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Alex Counts

https://www.alexcounts.com/what-we-do

Alex Counts is the author of Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind: Leadership Lessons from Three Decades of Social Entrepreneurship (Revised edition) (Rivertowns Books, 2021), the Executive Director and a senior advisor to nonprofit organizations, and the former President and CEO of the Grameen Foundation (from 1997 to 2015).

Rumela Sen

https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/rumela-sen

Professor Rumela Sen joined SIPA in fall 2020 as a lecturer in the discipline of International and Public Affairs, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Columbia’s Department of Political Science. Originally from India, Sen received her PhD in comparative politics from Cornell University. Her research focuses on conflict and post-conflict reconstruction in South Asia, particularly in India and Nepal.

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