Dr. M. Evren Tok is the Associate Dean of Community Engagement and Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Tok is also the regional coordinator for the Executive Master’s Program (Development Policies and Practices) jointly offered by the Graduate Institute of Geneva and Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is the co-editor of Policy Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar, published by Palgrave MacMillan, in 2016. His recent publications “Global Governance and Muslim Organizations” were published by Palgrave MacMillan and Innovating South-South Cooperation by the University of Ottawa Press in 2020. He is the director of a QNRF-funded cluster (2021-2026) entitled “SDG Education and Global Citizenship in Qatar”. He has been the Lead Project Investigator for the Qatar National Research Fund Priority Program for 3 years on “Localizing Entrepreneurship Education in Qatar”. He is the founder of the maker space entitled Maker Majlis: Islam in a Global World, which received the Qatar Sustainability Award under Best University Initiative in 2020 and the OIC Shaikh Hasina Award of Best Innovative Idea in 2022. Dr. Tok also received the Best Research Project Award from HBKU in 2022.
CPP, HBKU
2023 - PresentCIS, HBKU
2023 - 2018CIS, HBKU
2018 - 2012North-South Institute, ON, Canada
2011 - 2010Political Science and School of Social Work, Carleton University
2010 - 2008Carleton University
2010Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University
2005Romanowski, M. H., Tok, E., Amatullah, T., Amin, H., & Sellami, A. (2023). Globalisation, policy transferring and Indigenisation in higher education: The case of Qatar’s Education City. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1–15.
Pal, L.A. and Tok, M.E. (2019). Global governance and Muslim organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Tok, M.E., Alkhater, L.R.M., Pal, L.A. (2016). Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar. Palgrave Macmillan, London.