Active as a thinker and critical theorist across disciplines, aladin has been a visiting Professor/academic at institutions including Manchester University, City University and Christies in the U.K.; abroad he has been associated with Trondheim Art Academy (Norway), Copenhagen Business School/Centre for Arts and Leadership, the Learning Lab (Denmark), Reykjavik University and Nordic Institute for Contemporary Arts (Finland).
aladin has wide international experience as a keynote speaker across industries, not limited to the technology, energy, consultancy, creative, government, inter-governmental and voluntary/third sectors - and for organisations ranging from the Tate Modern, Schlumberger and the World Petroleum Council + Congress to the Mayoral Offices of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Berlin.
A graduate of the London School of Economics (L.S.E.), aladin went on to undertake four years of post graduate research there, conjointly in global economy(supervised by Susan Strange) as well as in strategic aspects of international relations(supervised by Philip Windsor). He also has training in counselling, groupwork, psychotherapy and brief intervention applied to street detached and public settings engaging with vulnerable individuals and groups, including those with special needs or at risk of violence. In childhood aladin trained in Calcutta/Kolkata in classical Indian music as a recital vocalist as well as in fine art, attending the Academy of Fine Arts in that city. Based in London, aladin was born in Washington D.C. and has also lived in Dhaka, Calcutta/Kolkata, Delhi, Karachi, Lahore, Baghdad, Algiers, Prague, Geneva and Paris. =====================================================
Clickable links to external commentaries on some of aladin's projects.
