Shuvaloy Majumdar
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Shuvaloy Majumdar is a Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar at the University of British Columbia with a focus on Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) democratization. From UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, he is a principal of Cloud to Street with partners at Harvard and Stanford Universities, designed to understand the intersection of cyberspace and political space in the Egyptian revolution.

Shuvaloy led democracy initiatives in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2006 and 2010 for the non-partisan International Republican Institute
International Republican Institute
Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute is an organization, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes labeled 'democratization programs'....

 (IRI). Programs included governance, civil society, political party building, public opinion polling/strategic research, independent media, social media, election observation, candidate training, and voter education programs. Shuvaloy has also participated in political party programs and election observations throughout several countries in Asia between 2001 and 2004. Over the last decade, he helped establish the Manning Centre for Building Democracy as Political Affairs & Governance Director to Preston Manning, C.C., and operated at senior levels in national campaigns.

As Chairman of a Canadian anti-trafficking organization, The Future Group, he led deployment teams to combat human trafficking in Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2003, for which he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Shuvaloy is an editorial board member of the award winning Canadian journal, C2C: Ideas That Lead, and is a regular foreign policy contributor to Sun News Network.

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