Dr. Sahar Khan is an independent analyst and an expert on U.S. grand strategy, nonproliferation and arms control, nuclear security, crisis management, and South Asian regional politics. She has served as the Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center (2023-2025), Research Fellow in the Defense and Foreign Policy Studies department at the Cato Institute (2021-2023), and Managing Editor of Inkstick Media (2020-2023). She conducted fieldwork in Pakistan for her dissertation, which examined the role of civilian institutions in Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategies and operations. She also has a M.P.P. from University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, and a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.