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Imran Ahmad Khan |
President & Co-Founder
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Imran Ahmad Khan is Transnational Crisis Project’s President and Co-Founder, principally responsible for delivery, key management, and strategic development.
As a strategist, expert in transnational security, population-centric foreign policy, ideological radicalization and counter-radicalization, Imran has advised governments, groups and organisations in several countries and is called upon by policymakers, academics and journalists to share his insights. As Crisis Project’s President he frequently travels at the invitation of universities, governments and others to address audiences around the world.
Born and educated in Great Britain to an English mother and a Pathan father, Imran is an ethnic Yusuf Zai Pathan. He has spent much time from his earliest childhood to date in the land of his ancestors and continues to maintain a particular and lifelong interest in affairs related to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Indeed he was in Afghanistan in December 1979 with his family at the time of the Soviet Invasion and remembers vividly the race to the safety of Pakistan with them. In addition to his duties as President of Crisis Project, which require him to provide leadership for its varied global endeavours, since 2007 Imran has also personally led Crisis Project’s in country research in both neighbouring republics.
Imran has held a wide range of business and policy positions in many countries. Some of these positions have included serving as a Special Advisor on Terrorism and the Muslim World at the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CEO of a multi-million dollar media company, Director of Communications for the Syrian Media Centre in London, an advisor to the Government of Belarus, and an Advisor to the British Conservative Party Group at WMDC.
Imran is a graduate of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, the Pushkin Institute, Moscow, and Centre International de Formation Européenne, Nice. Imran is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London. |
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