Ziad Haider

Ziad Haider is a Juris Doctor and Masterin Public Policy candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center and HarvardKennedy School. He was Foreign Policy Advisor to US Senator Christopher J. Doddand Professional Staff on the House Committee on Homeland Security. During the2004 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns, he served on the South Asia AdvisoryTeams of Senator John Kerry and then-Senator Barack Obama. He was a ResearchAnalyst at the Henry L. Stimson Center’s South Asia Program, a FulbrightScholar in Southeast Asia, and worked at Human Rights Watch and the HumanRights Commission of Pakistan.

Haider haspublished extensively on security and human rights issues including in theAsian Survey, Far Eastern Economic Review, Georgetown Journal of InternationalAffairs, Yale Global Online Magazine, Daily Times (Lahore), and Indian Express(New Delhi). His latest report "Mainstreaming Pakistan's Tribal Belt: AHuman Rights and Security Imperative" was published by the Belfer Centerfor Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School and is based onfield research he conducted in Pakistan's frontier last summer on governancereforms in the tribal areas.

Haider receivedhis Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Political Science from Yale College.He is fluent in Urdu and proficient in Mandarin and has lived in Pakistan,India, China, Malaysia, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.