Imtiaz Ali
Fellow
Center for Global Policy
About
Imtiaz Ali is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for Global Policy, a Washington D.C.-based non-partisan think tank working exclusively on issues at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and Muslim geopolitics. He is currently based in Washington D.C. and working as a public policy analyst and consultant focusing on political, security, development, and media-related issues related to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the wider South Asia region. Imtiaz was born in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, where he worked for several years as a journalist for local and foreign media organizations such as the Washington Post, London's Daily Telegraph, BBC, and prominent Pakistani newspapers The News and Dawn. He has written special policy reports for the United States Institute of Peace and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Imtiaz worked at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute as a curriculum specialist (2011-15). He has also served as a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (2009-10), and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University (2006-07).