Speaker Details
Dr Farzana Shaikh
Associate Fellow at Chatham House
About Speaker
Dr Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and provides regular analysis on current political and economic conditions in Pakistan.
Dr Shaikh has held a number of academic teaching positions in the UK, Europe and the United States, and been appointed to senior research fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the Institutes of Advanced Study in Princeton and Paris. She has written widely on Pakistan’s domestic and foreign policies and is the author most recently of Making Sense of Pakistan. Dr Shaikh has testified before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, and is also giving evidence to the International Development Committee of the UK Parliament on its inquiry on UK aid to Pakistan (https://committees.parliament.uk/event/3822/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ ). She serves as a Trustee of the Charles Wallace Trust on Pakistan (http://www.wallace-trusts.org.uk/cwt_pakistan.html). Dr Shaikh holds a PhD from Columbia University in New York.