Asif is a Postdoctoral Fellow at EW Barker Centre for Law and Business (EWBCLB), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has previously worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Auckland Business School under the mentorship of Professor Susan Watson. He has also briefly worked as a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at FGV Law School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the mentorship of Professor Mariana Pargendler – now a Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Previously, Asif worked as a Researcher at the International Arbitration practise of US law firm, WilmerHale, in London, UK. For over two years, he was a Lecturer in Law in Bangladesh and concurrently worked remotely as a Research Associate in a joint-collaborative research project of Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London.
Asif graduated PhD in Corporate Law with Magna cum laude (Distinction) from Humboldt University of Berlin under the supervision of Professor Stefan Grundmann. His PhD was fully funded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship. He was a Visiting PhD Researcher at University of Oxford during Hilary and Trinity Terms, 2022. Moreover, he graduated Barrister Training Course (BTC) with Distinction from BPP University, UK which was partially funded by BPP Career Commitment Scholarship. Subsequently, he was Called to the Bar of England and Wales as a barrister of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Erstwhile, he graduated LLM in International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation from University of Warwick, UK and attained his qualifying law degree (QLD) from Northumbria University, UK.
Asif’s research interests involve areas of corporate law and corporate governance from a transnational and comparative perspective, company law, legal transplants, and international arbitration. He is particularly interested in carrying out research pertaining to corporate law in the Global South and the Global North, and making comparisons, as appropriate. His works have appeared in several reputable peer-reviewed international legal journals including in Arbitration International (Oxford University Press), American Review of International Arbitration (Columbia Law School’s flagship international arbitration journal), Hong Kong Law Journal (Sweet & Maxwell), and Industrial Law Journal among others. His research monograph Transplant of Corporate Governance Regimes to South Asia is due for publication in August 2025 by De Gruyter.
