A political economist, my research focuses on development policy, international development (multi-lateral institutions), industrial policy, formal and informal institutions, postwar governance and digital development. (For more on my research, see here and here).
My research focuses on the political economy of development, international institutions, postwar governance and digital development. Currently, I am a research fellow at Lund University. I have held a non-resident research fellowship at the Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia, with prior research and teaching experience at Durham University, SOAS, and University College London. I have authored a monograph (Palgrave) and published in academic journals, including Global Policy and Third World Quarterly. I hold a PhD from University College London.
Brief personal bio: Born in Kabul in 1988, I spent my formative early years in Afghanistan before migrating to Pakistan in the 1990s. After earning an undergraduate degree in economics in India (2007--2010), I migrated to the United States on a diversity immigrant visa and later became a citizen, and have lived and worked between the UK and France since 2016.