Md Saidul Islam is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the past coordinator of the Environment and Sustainability Research Cluster in the School of Social Sciences and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). He's a former Visiting Scholar in the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fall 2018).
Prof. Islam's research interests include international development and environmental sociology, with a particular focus on industrial aquaculture, global agro-food system, climate change, food security, and environmental sustainability. He has published seven books on these topics.
In addition to 8 books, Dr. Islam also published over four dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters; notable amongst them is his co-authored article on sustainable seafood in the journal Science. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Early Investigator Award 2015 (Canadian Sociological Association) and the Outstanding Scientist Award for Publication Excellence 2017 (i-Proclaim Annual Research Award, Malaysia). His recent projects include "Climate change and food security in the Asia-Pacific: Response and Resilienc" and "The rise of 'green' movements in the global environmental politics", both supported by Tier-1 grants from the Ministry of Education, Singapore.
Dr. Islam is the founder of various conceptual frameworks and paradigms such as (a) the Twin-driven Commodity Chain, (b) Double-Risk Society, (c) Neoliberal Paradox, (d) Development as a Historical Project of Power, (e) Islamic Ecological Paradigm, (f) Plural Coexistence Model for disaster studies and (g) Modernization of Ecology. He teaches Environmental Sustainability, Development and Social Change, Environmental Sociology, and Cultural Politics of Development and Environment.