Sameer Lalwani

As Policy Analyst for the American Strategy Program, Sameer Lalwani contributes to the program's aim of sparking broader American internationalism through research, writing, and innovative programmatic efforts to frame public discourse on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Lalwani primarily concentrates on policy toward the Middle East and South Asia, but he has written on a broad array of U.S. national security and foreign policy challenges. He is a regular contributor to the popular political blog The Washington Note and has been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and TPM Cafe.

Before joining the American Strategy Program, Mr. Lalwani worked as Research Associate for New America's Fellows Program on issues ranging from fiscal policy to higher education. As a research assistant to Professor Kiren Chaudhry of the University of California, Berkeley, he developed a keen interest in the intersection of Middle East and South Asian politics, development economics, and critical theory. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Berkeley and has studied at the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He will begin a Ph.D. program in international relations/security studies in the fall of 2008.

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