Shuja Nawaz, a native of Pakistan, is the first Director of the South Asia Center at The Atlantic Council of the United States.
He writes for leading newspapers and web sites, and speaks on current
topics before civic groups, at think tanks, and on radio and television.
He has worked on projects with RAND, the United States Institute of Peace, The
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Atlantic Council, and other
leading think tanks on projects dealing with Pakistan
and the Middle East.
Mr. Nawaz was educated at Gordon
College, Rawalpindi,
where he obtained a BA in Economics and English Literature and the Graduate School
of Journalism of Columbia University in New
York, where he was a Cabot Fellow and won the Henry
Taylor International Correspondent Award. He was a newscaster and
producer for Pakistan Television and covered the 1971 war with India on the
Western Front. He has worked for the World Health Organization and has
headed three separate divisions at the International Monetary Fund. He
was also a Director at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Mr. Nawaz
was the Managing Editor and then Editor of Finance & Development,
the multilingual quarterly of the IMF and the World Bank and on the Editorial
Advisory Board of the World Bank Research Observer.
His latest book is Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its
Army, and the Wars Within (Oxford University Press 2008). He is
also the author of FATA: A Most Dangerous Place (CSIS,
Washington DC 2009). He can be reached at snawaz@acus.org
or at www.shujanawaz.com
