Akbar Zaidi
Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and of International and Public Affairs at School of International and Public Affairs
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Biography
School of International and Public Affairs
S. Akbar Zaidi is a Visiting Professor for 2010 – 2011. He holds a joint appointment with SIPA and the Department of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. His research focuses on development, governance, and political economy in South Asia.
Zaidi taught economics at the University of Karachi from 1983 to 1996 before becoming a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (1998) and later a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for the Advanced Study of India in New Delhi (2002–2003).
From 2004 to 2005 he was a visiting professor at SAIS and in 2008 he was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. Zaidi’s twelfth book, Military, Civil Society and Democratization in Pakistan, is to be published by Vanguard Press, Lahore in October 2010.
Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- MPhil, University of Cambridge
- MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science
- BSc, University College London
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Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi on "Is Pakistan Still A Democracy: A Political Economy Perspective"
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