Kamran Bokhari

Kamran Bokhari is a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. Bokhari teaches the geopolitics of the Middle East & South Asia to Canadian military, intelligence, law enforcement, foreign policy and national security officials at the Security & Policy Institute in the University of Ottawa. He also serves as a senior consultant to the World Bank and is a senior analyst with the U.S. intelligence firm, Geopolitical Futures. Formerly, he was with Stratfor for 12 years as the firm’s lead analyst on Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

In December 2013, he authored Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave Macmillan) and is currently working on a second book on how to ideologically combat the self-styled Islamic State and its so-called caliphate, which is due to publish in 2017. He also has contributed chapters to edited volumes such as the Oxford Handbook on Islam & Politics (2013) & Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (2007).
He has delivered briefings to various American, Canadian and British government departments. Over the years he has published thousands of analytical/theoretical/op-ed articles and has presented research papers in various international academic and policy forums. He has given hundreds of interviews to leading global media outlets, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Reuters, Associated Press, AFP, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, Foreign Policy, NPR, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, National Journal, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV, BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN-Turk, Pakistan’s GEO TV, India’s Hindustan Times, Xinhua and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Bokhari has many years of teaching experience at US & UK universities. Based in Toronto, he is also a PhD candidate in the democracy and Islam program in the department of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster (UK) where he is finishing his thesis ‘Moderation Among Salafists and Jihadists’ with Egypt’s Nour Party & Afghanistan’s Taliban movement as his case studies.