Tariq Rahman Ph.D is presently Dean of the School of Education at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. He is also HEC Distinguished National Professor and Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. From June 2007 till June 2011 he was also the Director of NIPS. He is a highly published scholar with over 93 articles in scholarly journals; 18 books; 6 encyclopedia articles; 32 contributions to books and several book reviews. His most famous book Language and Politics in Pakistan, published by Oxford (Pakistan) in 1996, remains in print and has been published by Orient Blackswan in India. His history of language-learning among the Muslims of South Asia, Language, Ideology and Power (OUP 2002), remains a landmark in the field and has also been published by the same publisher in 2008. One of his books, Denizens of Alien Worlds (OUP 2004), connects the medium of instruction with world view, poverty and politics in Pakistan. His latest book From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History is a social and political history of Urdu and has been published simultaneously by Oxford (Pakistan) and Orient (India) in 2011.

Dr. Rahman is the recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in 2011. The lifetime Achievement Award by the HEC in 1999; the Presidential Pride of Performance in 1995 and a number of other awards for research. He has been a guest professor in Denmark and Spain. He has been a Fulbright research scholar (1995-96) at U. T. Austin, a DAAD fellow in Germany and a British Council Scholar earlier. He was also the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at U.C Berkeley (2004-05). He has been a research fellow at the Oxford centre of Islamic Studies and the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He has lectured or contributed conference papers in the U.K where he obtained his M.A and Ph.D as well as the U. S. A, Germany, France, China, Korea, India and Nepal. He also contributes columns and book reviews to the English language press in Pakistan.