Brief Bio
Dr. Mohammed Jahangir Alam is the lecturer and subject coordinator of the Business and Management Programme at King's Own Institute, Sydney. Simultaneously, Dr. Alam is serving as the subject coordinator and lecturer of business and corporate law, entrepreneurship, sustainability, ESG and business ethics, and organisational behaviour at Crown Institute of Higher Education, Australia, both undergraduate and master’s programmes. He also serves as coordinator and lecturer of business law in the master's programme at Polytechnic Institute Australia. Previously, Dr. Alam taught as a tutor at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and worked as a research assistant at Western Sydney University Law School and IUCN, Bangladesh. He also works as a natural resources governance programme coordinator at different national and international NGO’s in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr. Alam also served as Manager (Tea and Rubber) at Sware Group, a multinational corporation. After working as a manager and development worker for over seven years in Bangladesh, Dr. Alam moved to Australia to pursue his higher education at the University of Wollongong (UOW), NSW, Australia, and gained both a Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) and a Master of Environmental Science with a dissertation (specialisation in Environmental Management). He then moved to the School of Law at the University of New England (UNE) to conduct PhD research on “Developing Legal Frameworks for Community-Based Invasive Plant Species Governance for Sustainable Forestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Bangladesh: Lessons from New South Wales, Australia." He also obtained a 4-year professional degree in Applied Science in Forestry and Environmental Sciences (with honours) from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dr. Alam’s research interest is in the area of business and corporate law and their implications in sustainability reporting by businesses, moving from traditional business to social business in cross-cultural management settings, and natural resources governance to achieve a world of three zeros through achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Dr. Alam's first book is in the process of being published as “Legal Frameworks for Invasive Plant Species Governance for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Forestry” by Routledge, UK.