Tasneem Arefa Siddiqui is a Bangladeshi academic and professor of Political Science at the University of Dhaka.
[2] She is the chairwoman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka and chairperson of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit.
[5] Siddiqui did her bachelor's degree and masters in Social Science at the University of Dhaka in 1980 and 1981 respectively.
She founded the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in 1995 along with Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, Shahdeen Malik, Sumaiya Khair, and Yasmin Ali Haque.
[11] In August 2024, she was included in a committee led by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, created under orders of chief advisor of interim government of Bangladesh Dr Muhammad Yunus, to write a white paper report on the economy of Bangladesh.