Dr. Mahbub Hasan

Mahbub Hasan is an educator, a social worker and project management specialist. He has been teaching at Centennial College of Ontario since 2013. As a faculty of Community Services department, he teaches Social Policy, Power and Social Movements, Community Development. Hasan has great interest in program coordination of the higher education sector. He worked with University of Toronto for two years to deliver a bridging program for internationally trained professionals.

In 2015, Hasan won ICNC fellowship for developing curriculum on civil resistance. At present, he is a Board of Directors of Regent Park Arts –Daniels Spectrum and Community Impact Advisor of United Way Toronto & York Region, and involved in various community development initiatives in Toronto.

Hasan is a lifelong learner. He studied Social Work (BSW and MSW) at Ryerson University, Canada. Besides, he has BA & MA degrees in History, M.Phil in Ethno-history, and Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Dhaka. Hasan has certificates in Project Management and Communications from University of Toronto. He has received training in Human Rights based approach, Social Service and Non-profit management from York University, VSO UK, ActionAid International.

In Toronto,  Hasan worked with Integrated  Local Labour Market Planning Project of City of Toronto (2012) and Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) as Fundraising & Project Coordinator from 2011 to 2013. At CASSA, Hasan executed various projects and campaigns such as Concert for Social Justice, CapaCITY Creators, Toronto Mela.

As an international development worker, Hasan worked with ActionAid, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and  Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) during 1998 – 2010, and executed a number projects to fight against poverty & injustice and empower communities. He has more than five years direct working experience at community level with marginalized children, youth, women and diverse social groups.

Hasan’s major interests and skills are in social policy, civil resistance, community development, project management, fundraising and communications. His research and training experience, and development interests lie in immigration, livelihood, governance, ethnicity and gender. He authored a book Livelihood of the Santals indigenous Community. He co-authored a book on Community Journalism.

Learn More about Hasan

• Event news and interview on Concert for Social Justice
• Hasan’s interview with Rogers TV on Toronto Mela, a community development initiative
• Interview with CBC Television on Governance and Social Housing issue in Toronto
• Interview on University of Toronto
• Interview with OMNI TV Toronto on Racism Free Ontario Campaign

Expertise and Services: 

• Project management
• Project review/evaluation
• Grant proposal writing
• Fundraising from individuals and events
• Strategy review and planning
• Programs development
• Policy review and development
• Research (qualitative)
• Capacity building in fundraising, project management, social media, community journalism, business and donor communications.

You may visit Expert Perspective for getting more information about his services.