Draft:Caf Dowlah

Caf Dowlah, Ph.D. is a former professor of economics with the State University of New York and the City University of New York for three decades. He has most recently been Visiting Scholar with the University of Miami Law School; Columbia University Law School, New York, and a consultant with the Modern Slavery Project of the United Nations University-Center for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), New York. He has also taught at the University of Southern California, the California State University-Fullerton, the Otaru University of Commerce (Japan), and the BRAC University, Bangladesh. Dr. Dowlah has also worked for the World Bank, the UNDP, the UN-WFP, and the USAID in policy advisory capacities. Professor Dowlah has authored over a dozen books and over thirty papers in refereed journals on international trade, global finance and investment, global value chains, and international labor migration. His latest book, titled, "Economic and Financial Sanctions of the United States: Legal Perspectives" has just been published by Cambridge University Press (2024). His other most recent publications include: "Foundations of Modern Slavery: Profiles of Unfree and Coerced Labor through the Ages (Routledge, 2022); "Cross-Border Labor Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020); Transformations of Global Prosperity: How Foreign Investment, Multinationals, and Value Chains are Remaking Modern Economy (Macmillan, 2018); International Trade, Competitive Advantage, and Developing Economies: Changing Trade Patterns since the Emergence of the WTO (Routledge, 2016); and Bangladesh Liberation War, the Sheikh Mujib Regime, and Contemporary Controversies (Lexington Books, 2016). He was also a contributory author of Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery (United Nations, 2019).