Themrise Khan

Independant Professional, International Development, Social Policy and Global Migration

Themrise Khan is an independent professional with over 20 years of experience in conducting analytical and policy research studies and program evaluations. She blogs at www.lamehdood.wordpress.com.

Media

The niqab takes us back to where Muslim women should not be going

What Jagmeet Singh's Victory Should Mean for Minorities and What it Shouldn't

Canada Must Help Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

Someone should have told Trudeau that courting India is more than trying to blend in with the locals

The North-American-ness of #MeToo ignores women's struggles in the rest of the world

Tough questions we should be asking about Canada's immigration targets

Reversing the Flow by Returning Home

Canadian Politics. A Reminder of Back Home

Restless for Peace

Youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa. Taking stock of the evidence and knowledge gaps
by Gordon Betcherman and Themrise Khan
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 2015
Rethinking Canadian Aid. Second Edition
by Editors; Stephen Brown, Molly Den Heyer and David Black
University of Ottawa Press 2016
ISBN 978-0-7766-2364-1 (paperback).– ISBN 978-0-7766-2365-8 (pdf).– ISBN 978-0-7766-2366-5 (epub)

Chapter Contribution:Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving
beyond the “Afghanistan Model”
Stephen Baranyi and Themrise Khan (p 237)

Sociology of Migration and Development
by Themrise Khan
International Organization for Migration, Bangladesh

Thematic publication prepared for the Ninth Annual Global Migration and Development Forum (GFMD).

Biography

Themrise Khan has over 20 years of experience working with bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, as well as with national and international NGOs and civil society organizations including DFID, Global Affairs Canada, multiple UN Agencies, The World Bank, Oxfam Canada and MEDA Canada. She has worked extensively with grassroots, governments and non-government organizations in her home region of South Asia, on issues of poverty reduction and social exclusion, gender, social policy and migration.

Her main area of expertise lies in conducting qualitative thematic and policy research studies, program evaluations and producing communication outputs. Over 10 years of this is experience in conducting summative and formative evaluations of development projects and programs conducted both independently, as well as part of international teams. She is an occasional writer of op-eds and thematic pieces for print and online mediums on poverty, migration and development and a recent blogger at www.lamehdood.wordpress.com.

Khan is based in Ottawa but works internationally in pursuing professional interests in the area of migration research and international development policy.

Past Talks

Is Canadian Identity still Measurable? Exploring data gaps in the Census in an age of multiple and continually evolving identity patterns (Working title). Presentation of a work-in-progress,

MEASURING IDENTITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN CANADA @ 150 AND BEYOND. Forum organized by the Canadian Institute of identities and Migration. November 30-December 1, 2017 (forthcoming)

Aylmer, Quebec

Expertise

  • Social Policy Research and Analysis
  • Migration and Development Policy
  • Gender Analysis
  • Social Policy Program Evaluation

Education/Éducation

  • York University
    Environmental Studies
    Bachelors, 1995

    Specialization in Global Development


  • London School of Economics and Political Science
    Development Management
    Masters, 2000

    British Council Chevenning Scholar