Wajahat S. Khan

Wajahat S. Khan is an Emmy-nominated journalist and author reporting on Indo-Pacific security and focusing on the Af-Pak conflict. An Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center of Global Affairs and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Washington’s Atlantic Council, Khan is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and the University of Michigan, and Pakistan’s only Shorenstein Fellow from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has reported from 16 countries covering conflict, diplomacy, and media for digital, cable and network news. During the final years of the U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Khan was bureau chief in Kabul and Islamabad for NBC News and embedded with over a hundred NATO, Afghan, Indian and Pakistani military units as he covered South Asia for leading British, Indian, and Pakistani networks and publications since the beginning of the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. He frequently dabbles with cricket and is the author of the 2019 Amazon/Harper Collins sports bestseller, Game Changer: Being Shahid Afridi. He lives between New York City, London and Karachi and drives a very, very fast car.