Mohammad Swapan is an Associate Professor (Urban and Regional Planning) at the School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University. He has a Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Planning) awarded in 2013 from Curtin University, Australia. He received a Master of Environmental Studies in 2007 from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Bachelor of Urban and Rural Planning (BURP) in 2001 from Khulna University, Bangladesh. He joined Curtin as a Lecturer in 2013. He is a Founding Co-Director at the Global South Nexus (GSN). He has been a Director at the Graduate Research School of Design and the Built Environment since Dec 2020.