Rumy Hasan

My core specialism (following a doctorate in transition economics at Oxford in 1994) was the political economy of the former Eastern bloc countries. Later, I began to teach and research the East Asian economies, including China; and also transnational corporations. But since the events of 7/7 2005, my work has focused more on issues relating to multiculturalism, multifaithism, and social cohesion; and the nexus between religion (especially Islam) identity, and society. I am also interested in the rise of Islamic radicalism and how it can be tackled.

My latest book is 

Modernising Islam - The Limits of Liberal Reform In Muslim Nations

• Invitation to act as Peer Reviewer of the Final Report of the Independent Investigation examining the Conservative and Unionist Party’s Handling of Complaints Relating to Protected Characteristics (The Singh Investigation, released in May 2021)
• Invited by the Dutch Senate Forum for Democracy to provide a 5,000 word submission on the issue of Identity and Politics with special reference to the Integration of Ethnic and Religious Minorities (October, 2020)
• Invitation to become Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at the Civitas Thinktank, London, in summer 2019
• Invitation to present evidence to the UK parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee in July 2019
• In July 2019, Invited by the Home Affairs Select Committee to be considered as a Specialist Adviser to its inquiry into Islamophobia before the Committee’s work was interrupted by the General Election and the coronavirus pandemic
• Invitation to speak as a keynote speaker at the The Open Society and its Closed Communities conference, organised by the Netherlands Ministry of the Interior in conjunction with Leiden University, The Hague, March 2018
• Invitation to speak in the House of Lords in May 2013 and January 2016
• Invitation, in September 2013, to become a member of the steering committee of Demos think tank’s ‘Mapping Integration’ project, led by David Goodhart and chaired by former head of the CRE/EHRC Trevor Phillips.
• Interviewed on various issues by BBC Radio 4, BBC Asia Network, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 5, panellist on BBC1 ‘Big Questions’ programme, Chinese TV, Daily Telegraph, The Daily Herald, French-Canadian daily Le Devoir, The Economist, LBC, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Turkish TV, Voice of Russia, Dutch daily Volksrant. Invited on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze in 2018 though pressing circumstances forced me to cancel.
• Articles published in many leading national and international outlets.