Nafisa Nazin Lutfa has been serving as a lecturer at the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) since 2022. Nafisa's academic brilliance was recognised with the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the year 2023, a testament to her significant contributions to the academic community.

Beginning her academic career in 2022, Nafisa worked as a full-time teaching assistant at BUP. Her dedication to fostering a welcoming classroom and receiving support from faculty members and students during this period paved the way for her later influential career in education. Nafisa engaged herself in research at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies before taking on the post of teaching assistant. An apprenticeship in public relations and communication at BRAC Internal Communications, Head Office, was another stop on Nafisa's career path. Her current research interests include, but are not limited to, foreign policy, Southeast and East Asia geopolitics, and ethnic politics.

1. Nazin Lutfa, N. and Ahmed Shanto, R. (2023) “Foreign Policy of Bangladesh towardsIndia-China Tussle: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis”, NUST Journal of InternationalPeace & Stability. https://doi.org/10.37540/njips.vi.138. 

2. Lutfa, N. N., & Rafayat A. S. (2024). Ethnicity and the Politics of Revolution in Myanmar: The Fate of the Arakan Army. Journal of Human Rights and Peace Studies, 10(2). Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/HRPS/article/view/276349

1. Islam, M., Molla, R., Shanto, R. A., Lutfa, N. N., & Faruque, T. E. (2021). Proceedings on the Rohingya Crisis: Response of the International Community and the Repatriation Process (C. M. Ahmed, A. S. Yusuf, M. R. Bhuiyan, A. H. Semul, &S. Karim, Eds.). Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of International Studies (BIISS).

1. 1. Foreign Policy 

2. 2. Myanmar Studies 

3. 3. Ethnic Politics 

4. 4. Resource Policy

1. Chancellor's Gold Medal in the year 2023.