Dr. Nafees Alam

Dr. Nafees Alam is an award-winning professor specializing in nonprofit program evaluation and macro practice. Before academia, he worked in Wall Street’s financial sector for over seven years. Dr. Alam’s research agenda is self-determination in sport social work with a secondary focus on viewpoint diversity, open inquiry, and constructive disagreement in higher education. He has over 150 peer-reviewed and popular-press publications and serves on the editorial boards of Replications in Social Psychology, the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, Research on Social Work Practice, and the Sport Social Work Journal. He has presented at conferences worldwide, including four keynotes. He aims to disseminate ideas through many public platforms as a contributor to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Heterodox Academy, Inside Sources, Psychology Today, Real Clear Education, Open Therapy Institute, ProSocial Workers, and the Institute for Liberal Values. He is passionate about global education through technology, teaching and designing online courses taught globally, along with his YouTube channel and Podcast geared toward an international academic audience.