Ashish Banik

Ashish Banik is a development professional, researcher, and security analyst with more than 17 years of experience in governance, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and humanitarian research. His work covers security studies, countering violent extremism, social cohesion, women’s empowerment, and refugee governance, with extensive field engagement across Bangladesh, particularly in Cox’s Bazar, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands. He has led and contributed to major national and international research and programming initiatives focused on humanitarian security and conflict-sensitive development. These initiatives have been implemented in collaboration with a range of actors at the national, regional and global settings. His professional portfolio also includes managing donor-funded peacebuilding and counter-radicalization projects, training community leaders and institutions, and participating in regional and global policy forums. He is a published author and frequent presenter, combining rigorous research with policy advocacy and practical field experience.