Ziad Haider is a White House Fellow in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. He previously served as a Legislative Aide on foreign policy and immigration issues in the U.S. Senate and Professional Staff on the House Committee on Homeland Security. He was a Research Analyst at the Henry L. Stimson Center developing conflict resolution measures in South Asia, a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia working on Muslim women’s rights issues and studying Islamic law, and a Fellow at Human Rights Watch’s China Program and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, conducting field work on governance reforms in Pakistan’s tribal belt. He has also worked at leading international law firms in the United States, India, and Singapore. He is the author of The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2010) and a foreign affairs columnist for The Sun (Malaysia). Haider received his B.A. with distinction in Political Science from Yale University and his J.D. and M.P.A. from Georgetown and Harvard University and is fluent in Urdu and proficient in Mandarin and French. He is the co-director of the Truman Asia Expert Group.