Nabila Idris is a Bangladeshi academic and human rights advocate, who serves as a member of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh. She received the Begum Rokeya Padak in 2025 for her contributions to human rights.
Idris earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her 2021 thesis was titled "The politics of social protection in Bangladesh: The making of the National Social Security Strategy". Before that, she completed a masterâÂÂs degree in Social Policy with distinction from the University of York in 2014, and later a second masterâÂÂs degree in International Journalism and Communication from the Communication University of China in Beijing in 2015.
Idris is the Commissioner of Bangladesh's National Human Rights Comission. Earlier she was the member of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh.
She works as a part-time research fellow at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University. She is the founding president of "CommunityAction".
She received the Begum Rokeya Padak in 2025 for her contributions to human rights.