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Katherine Tiedemann was a research fellow in the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative until mid-2011. As a fellow, she studied Afghanistan, Pakistan, and issues of transnational terrorism, and is doctoral student in political science at George Washington University. Prior to joining the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, she worked with the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program.

Previously, Ms. Tiedemann worked as a research assistant to Prof. James T. Hamilton at Duke University regarding funding for political action committees and political participation. She has also worked as an intelligence analyst for the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University, where she studied public policy, history, and journalism. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic, and she is the deputy editor of the AfPak Channel on ForeignPolicy.com (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/afpak), where she writes the AfPak Daily Brief, a daily synthesis of the news from and about Afghanistan and Pakistan (http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/dailybrief).