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Michael Kugelman
Director, South Asia Institute
Read more from MichaelAfghanistan today is a messy, mixed picture. After almost four decades of war, there is no more active conflict. But the country is fully controlled by a Taliban regime just as brutal as it was in the 1990s, and it is suffering through searing levels of humanitarian and economic stress. Relative peace may have arrived, but at great cost.
Mirwais Balkhi
Fellow
Nader Nadery
Senior Fellow
Nirupama Rao
Public Policy Fellow
Afghanistan: Hindsight Up Front
Afghanistan is led by one of the world’s most brutal regimes, and it is suffering through one of the world’s most serious humanitarian crises. The Wilson Center’s Hindsight Up Front Initiative aims to help ensure that Afghanistan continues to figure in policy and public debates in Washington and beyond.
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Staff and Fellows
Michael Kugelman
Mirwais Balkhi
Former Afghan Minister of Education
William B. Milam
Former Senior U.S. Diplomat and U.S. Ambassador in both South Asia and West Africa, with publications on both regions
Nader Nadery
Associate fellow, Asser Institute; Visiting fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford
Baqir Sajjad
Diplomatic and National Security Correspondent, Dawn Newspaper
Global Fellows
Akbar Ahmed
Distinguished Professor and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, School of International Service, American University; Former Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland
Suman Bery
Non-resident Fellow, Bruegel (Brussels)
Robert Hathaway
Former Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Former Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Ishrat Husain
Former Governor of Pakistan's Central Bank, and Former Adviser to the Pakistani Prime Minister
Farahnaz Ispahani
Senior Fellow, Religious Freedom Institute
Sanjay Kathuria
Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty, Georgetown University/Ashoka University; Senior Visiting Fellow/Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi/Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore
Venkateswaran Lokanathan
Former Assistant Director, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India
Neeti Nair
Professor of History, University of Virginia
Nadia Naviwala
Independent Writer on Foreign Aid, Local Philanthropy, Civil Society, and Education in Pakistan; Former USIP Country Representative for Pakistan, Former USAID Pakistan Desk Officer; Former U.S. Senate National Security Aide; Former Public Policy Fellow;
Nirupama Rao
Former Indian Foreign Secretary; Former Indian Ambassador to Washington and Beijing
Huma Yusuf
Columnist, Dawn Newspaper, Pakistan