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Dr. Evren Tok
Associate Dean for Community Engagement
Dr. Evren Tok
Associate Dean for Community Engagement
Educational Qualifications
Collaborative PHD in Public Policy and Political Economy
Master of Arts in Political Economy
Entity
College of Public Policy
Biography
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.
Collaborative PHD in Public Policy and Political Economy
Carleton University
2010
Master of Arts in Political Economy
Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University
2005
- Sustainability
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Policy Analysis
- Global/Local Nexus
Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Associate Professor
CPP, HBKU
2023 – Present
Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Development
CIS, HBKU
2018 - 2023
Program Coordinator, Public Policy in Islam
CIS, HBKU
2012 - 2018
Research Associate
North-South Institute, ON, Canada
2010 - 2011
Sessional Instructor
Political Science and School of Social Work, Carleton University
2008 - 2010
- Romanowski, 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.
- 2022: Best Research Project Award by HBKU.
- Best University Initiative, Maker Majlis by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
- Best University Initiative, Maker Majlis by Qatar Sustainability Awards, QGBC.