Muhammad Irfan Sadik

Muhammad Irfan Sadik

About Muhammad Irfan Sadik

The author is Founder and Executive Director, Project Upokul and serves as the Senior Foreign Policy Analyst at Youth Policy Forum - YPF. Sadik holds an M.S.S. and B.S.S. from the Department of International Relations at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

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