Kamran Bokhari
Dr. Kamran Bokhari is a Senior Director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington DC. He is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. Dr. Bokhari has over 15 years of experience in the private sector intelligence space during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis and forecasts. He has served as a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University and as a Senior Consultant with The World Bank. Over the years, Dr. Bokhari has briefed various U.S., Canadian and U.K. government agencies, published thousands of analytical and theoretical articles, and presented papers in international academic and policy forums.
Kamran Bokhari Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Senior Director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity Portfolio
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Senior Lecturer at the Professional Development Institute
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Senior Consultant
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Fellow, Program on Extremism
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Senior Analyst
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Visiting Lecturer
Academic History
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Ph.D., Politics and International Relations
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M.A., Middle Eastern Studies
NEW LINES INSTITUTE
Dr. Bokhari served as the institute's Director of the Analytical Development Department from 2019 to 2023.
He played a pivotal role in establishing the Institute's M.A. program in Strategy & Policy.
He taught three seminars: Strategic Analysis in an Interconnected World, The Global Architecture and Analytical Development.
ACADEMIA
Dr. Bokhari has many years of teaching experience at US and UK universities.
He 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 was a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
EARLY CAREER
Dr. Bokhari has also been a Senior Consultant with The World Bank since 2009.
He has also served as the Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute.
Formerly, he was with Stratfor for 12 years as the firm’s lead analyst on Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
His core areas of expertise are: Central and South Asia and the Middle East, Intelligence Analysis/Geopolitics, Foreign Policy/National Security, Democratization, Civil-Military Relations, Comparative Political Systems, Geosectarianism, and Counterterrorism, Islamist/Muslim Moderation, Islamism/Jihadism.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Bokhari has delivered briefings to various American, Canadian and British government departments.
He has given hundreds of interviews to leading global media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, and Forbes,
He has also appeared or been quoted in AP, CNN, CNBC, Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN-Turk, Pakistan’s GEO TV, India’s Hindustan Times, Xinhua and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
He is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst at Geopolitical Futures.