NOTE: This page is no longer being updated as of April 2013.
Afghanistan experts, scholars, analysts, researchers, authors, professors, academics, students, etc…
The following lists of people includes anyone who carries out research (or has done so in the past) on Afghanistan. If you would like your name included on this list please send us a link to your webpage. If you have no online profile you may send us a resume/CV to host here (we can accept PDF or Word doc format).
Based in the United States or Canada
- Ludwig Adamec
- Jon W Anderson
- Nadir Atash
- Shafie Ayar
- Thomas Barfield
- Michael Barry
- Leonard N Bartlotti
- Andrew Beath
- Peter Bergen
- Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
- Vahid Brown
- Shireen K Burki
- Ted Callahan
- Robert L Canfield
- James Caron
- Andrea Chiovenda
- Adam Choppin
- Fotini Christia
- Noah Coburn
- Anthony H Cordesman
- Robert Crews
- Lisa Curtis
- Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
- Matthew Dearing
- John Dempsey
- Jasteen Dhillon
- James Dobbins
- Antonio Donini
- Jeffrey Dressler
- Matthew DuPee
- David B Edwards
- Ruben Enikolopov
- Daniel Esser
- Andrew M Exum
- C. Christine Fair
- Vanda Felbab-Brown
- Nathaniel Fick
- Jennifer L. Fluri
- Erica Gaston
- David N. Gibbs
- Kenneth Glaudell
- Thomas E Gouttierre
- M Jamil Hanifi
- Shah M Hanifi
- Marc Herold
- Daisuke Higashi
- Nazia Hussain
- Syed Hyder
- Harold L Ingram
- Ali Jalali
- Thomas H Johnson
- Seth Jones
- David J. Katz
- David Kilcullen
- Felix Kuntzsch
- Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
- Vernie R Liebl
- Anatol Lievan
- Sarah Lister
- Sean Maloney
- David Mansfield
- M. Chris Mason
- Robert D McChesney
- Kevin McNamara
- Raymond Millen
- Margaret Mills
- Nabi Misdaq
- Nathaniel L. Moir
- Dipali Mukhopadhyay
- Homira Nassery
- Fariba Nawa
- Senzil Nawid
- Ronald E Neumann
- Neamat Nojumi
- Khalil Nouri
- Lauryn Oates
- Michael O’Hanlon
- Lara Olson
- Roland Paris
- Michelle S Parker
- Ted Rall
- Bruce Riedel
- William C Rowe
- Barnett R Rubin
- Mir H Sadat
- Mark Schneider
- Richard B Scott
- Mark Sedra
- M Nazif Shahrani
- Audrey Shalinsky
- Sharifa Sharif
- Jake Sherman
- Homayun Sidky
- Vikram J. Singh
- Abdulkader Sinno
- Graeme Smith
- Janice Gross Stein
- Richard Strand
- Amin Tarzi
- Christopher Taylor
- J Alexander Thier
- Katherine Tiedemann
- Jarad Van Wagoner
- Caroline Wadhams
- Ahmad Waheed
- Marvin G Weinbaum
- Andrew Wilder
- Brian Glynn Williams
- Ashraf Zahedi
- Maliha Zulfacar
- Christoph Zurcher
Based in Europe, Asia or Australia
- Ayaz Ahmad
- Samina Ahmed
- Gaït Archambeaud
- Karin Ask
- Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam
- Rohullah Azizi
- Ingeborg Baldauf
- Sultan Barakat
- Jo Beall
- Nematullah Bizhan
- Kaja Borchgrevink
- Pierre Centlivres
- Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary
- Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
- David Connolly
- Gulshan Dietl
- Gilles Dorronsoro
- Manija Gardizi
- Armando Geller
- Elisa Giunchi
- Antonio Giustozzi
- Jonathan Goodhand
- Bashir Ahmad Gwakh
- Kristian Berg Harpviken
- Schuyler Jones
- Artemy Kalinovsky
- Deniz Kandiyoti
- Masood Karokhail
- Hekmat Karzai
- Ayesha Khan
- Max Klimburg
- Are John Knudsen
- Daniel Korski
- Sari Kouvo
- Felix Kuehn
- Bernd Kuzmits
- Najibullah Lafraie
- Christopher Langton
- Martin W Lau
- William Maley
- Magnus Marsden
- Jennifer McCarthy
- Katja Mielke
- Amalendu Misra
- Alessandro Monsutti
- Craig C. Naumann
- Timo Noetzel
- Erwin Orywal
- Alpaslan Ozerdem
- Elaheh Rostami-Povey
- Rasul Bakhsh Rais
- Ahmed Rashid
- Zarghona Rassa
- Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
- Olivier Roy
- Thomas Ruttig
- Lutz Rzehak
- Amin Saikal
- Conrad Schetter
- Sibylle Scheipers
- Susanne Schmeidl
- Susanne Schmeidl #2
- Abubakar Siddique
- Rory Stewart
- Arne Strand
- Alex Strick van Linschoten
- Astri Suhrke
- Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
- Muhammad Tahir
- Richard Tapper
- Marc Theuss
- Peter Dahl Thruelsen
- Matteo Tondini
- Stina Torjesen
- Willem Vogelsang
- Mirwais Wardak
- Ali Wardak
- Alef Shah Zadran
- Ehsan Zahine
- Steven Zyck
