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 also acts as 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 books were issued respectively with “Global Governance and Muslim Organizations” being 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 is also the recipient of the Best Research Project Award in HBKU in 2022.
CIS, HBKU
Aug 2018 - PresentCIS, HBKU
Jun 2018 - PresentCIS, HBKU
Jan 2012 - Jun 2018North South Institute, Ottawa
Feb 2012 - Sep 2017Carleton Center for Community Innovation, Carleton University, Ottawa
Sep 2011 - PresentCarleton University, Ottawa
Sep 2006 - May 2011Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
Jan. 2015Carleton University, Ottawa
2011Carleton University, Ottawa
2005Koc University, Istanbul
2002The Case of Organization of Islamic Cooperation. In Turan, K. & Petersen, M. J. (Eds.), Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press.
2019Teaching Educational Leadership in the Gulf and the Middle East: Theoretical and Cultural Foundations? Singapore: Springer Nature.
2019In Tok, E., McMillan, L., & Besada, H. (Eds.), Innovating South-South Cooperation: Challenges, Modalities and Policies. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
2019Shedding Light on the Preludes in Besada, Hany; Agarwal, Manmohan; Polonenko, Leah (ed). The Global 2015 Development Agenda: Challenges and Prospects. Policy Press. 2018.
2018Meeting the Challenges of the 2030 Agenda: Alternative Forms of Development Cooperation and the United Nations. Available at: http://cpr.unu.edu/meeting-the-challenges-of-the-2030-agenda-alternative-forms-of-development-cooperation-and-the-united-nations.html
2015The Case of Masdar City, United Arab Emirates. In Kamrava, M., & Babar, Z. (Eds.), Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf. C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.
2016Inclusive Development, Natural Resource Management and Sustainability in Africa: A Qatari Perspective. In Eickelman, D., & Abusharraf, R. (Eds.), Gulf-Africa Relations: A Closer Look. Berlin: Gerlach Publishers.
2015Crafting Smart Cities in the Middle East: Comparison of Masdar and Lusail. In Harrison, D., Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies. IGI Publishers.
2015A Perspective from Islamic Geographies. Arab World Geographer.
2019Rethinking Qatar’s Soft Power in the Post Blockade Times. Digest of Middle Eastern Studies (DOMES). 28 (1).
2019Economic Diversification Potential in the Rentier States Towards a Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Model. Sustainability, 11. 911.
2019Center for Middle East. Rice University and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
2018Cleantech Entrepreneurship in Qatar. Global Journal of Comparative Law.
2018Islam, Entrepreneurship and Embeddedness. Thunderbird International Business Review.
2018Khaleeji Mode of Development Cooperation. Gulf Affairs, Oxford Gulf Peninsula Studies Forum.
2017The Perpetuation of Regime Security in Gulf Cooperation Council States: A Multi-Lens Approach. Digest of Middle Eastern Studies (DOMES), 26 (1).
2017Financing Post-2015 Development Agenda [Special Issue: From MDGs to SDGs: Africa in the post-2015 agenda: a geographical perspective]. African Geographical Review.
2017A Policy Perspective from Qatar. Middle East Institute: Insight. National University of Singapore.
2017Shedding Light on Trends and Prospects. Mapping GCC Foreign Policy: Resources, Recipients and Regional Effects. (Collected Papers 3). London School of Economics (LSE) Middle East Center.
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