Kamran Bokhari

Kamran Bokhari is a consultant with The World Bank. He is the former Advisor on Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs (2003-15) to the U.S. geopolitical intelligence firm, Stratfor. Bokhari is the author of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2013) and is 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 later this year. 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).

Bokhari has delivered briefings to various American, Canadian and British government departments. Over the years he has published thousands of analytical and theoretical 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, CNBC, The Associated Press, AFP, Reuters, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, National Journal, Fox News, NPR, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV, BBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN-Turk, Pakistan's GEO TV, India's Hindustan Times, Xinhua and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

He has also been a senior consultant to the World Bank and has many years of teaching experience at US & UK universities. Based in Toronto, he is a PhD candidate in the the department of politics and international relations at London's University of Westminster where he is writing his thesis 'Moderation Among Salafists and Jihadists' with Egypt's Nour Party & Afghanistan's Taliban movement as his case studies. He tweets at @KamranBokhari.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Geopolitics of the Muslim World

Middle East

South Asia

Islamism/Jihadism

Geo-sectarianism

Democratization

Civil-Military Relations

Counterterrorism/Deradicalization

Countering Violent Extremism

Islamist/Muslim Moderation

Foreign Policy

Security/Intelligence Affairs

Comparative Political Systems