Michael Kugelman
Program Associate , Asia Program
Phone: 202/691-4059
Email: michael.kugelman@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Program associate Expertise South Asia (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan); Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia); U.S.-South Asia and U.S.-Southeast Asia relations Experience Research assistant, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University; senior editor, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Tufts University; intern, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State; program assistant, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, AMIDEAST

Major Publications | Biography | Education

Major Publications

• Land Grab: The Race for the World's Farmland, lead editor (Wilson Center, forthcoming 2009)
  
• Running on Empty: Pakistan's Water Crisis, lead editor (Wilson Center, forthcoming 2009)
  
• Powering Pakistan: Meeting Pakistan's Energy Needs in the 21st Century, co-editor (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  
• Kuala Lumpur Calling: Al Jazeera English in Asia, editor (Woodrow Wilson Center, November 2008)
  
• "Foreign Addiction: Assessing India's Energy Security Strategy," editor (Asia Program Special Report 142, Woodrow Wilson Center, October 2008)
  
• Hard Sell: Attaining Pakistani Competitiveness in Global Trade, lead editor (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008)
  
• "'The War on Terrorism': Where Do We Stand?" (Occasional Paper No. 3, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University, 2007)
  
• Fueling the Future: Meeting Pakistan's Energy Needs in the 21st Century, co-editor (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2007)
  
• "Democratizing the Middle East?", author and editor (Occasional Paper No. 2, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University, 2006)
  
• Asia 20/20: Focus on the Future, The Williamsburg Conference, rapporteur and author (report of the 34th Williamsburg Conference, Asia Society, 2006)
  
• "Edging toward Full Empowerment? South Korean Women in the Workplace and the Political Arena," editor (Asia Program Special Report 132, Woodrow Wilson Center, September 2006)
  
• "One Year after the Tsunami: Policy and Public Perceptions," editor (Asia Program Special Report 130, Woodrow Wilson Center, May 2006)
  
• "Engaging in Dialogue on U.S. Foreign Policy," rapporteur and author (Occasional Paper No. 1, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University, 2005)

Biography
Michael Kugelman is program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on South and Southeast Asia. His current projects include work on water and food security in Pakistan. Previously, he worked at AMIDEAST, where he helped administer the Fulbright Foreign Student Program and advised graduate students from the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr. Kugelman received his M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His academic focus was on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. Also while at Fletcher, he served as a research assistant at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and as a senior editor for The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs journal. He received his B.A. from American University’s School of International Service.

He has written and edited a number of publications on Asia and the Middle East, including the co-edited Hard Sell: Attaining Pakistani Competitiveness in Global Trade and the edited Kuala Lumpur Calling: Al Jazeera English in Asia (both Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008). Oxford University Press will publish Powering Pakistan: Meeting Pakistan’s Energy Needs in the 21st Century, a volume he co-edited, in early 2009.

Education
M.A., International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; B.A., International Studies, School of International Studies, American University

Asia Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: asia@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4020