Raza Rumi

Raza Ahmad Rumi is a policy analyst, journalist and an author. He is Director, Park Center for Independent Media and teaches in the journalism department. He is also Visiting Faculty at Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. During 2015-2017, Raza was a scholar in residence at IC and taught courses in journalism and writing departments as well as at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and the National Endowment for Democracy. He is a member of think tank at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University; and a nonresident fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Prior to his career in writing and journalism, Raza worked at the Asian Development Bank as a Governance Specialist, an administrator in Pakistan's civil service and the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo.

Raza was the editor of Daily Times, The Friday Times and a TV broadcaster in Pakistan before he moved to the United States in 2014. Raza is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent book Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins, India. He co-edited a volume of essays entitled Rethinking Pakistan that was published by Anthem Press in September 2020. He has also edited volumes entitled 'Rethinking Pakistan' (2020, Anthem Press) and 'The Role of Public Administration in Building Social Harmony' (2007, Asian Development Bank). His most recent book is a collection of essays entitled "Identity, Faith and Conflict'. www.razarumi.com