Shibil Siddiqi

Shibil Siddiqi is a journalist and political analyst, and a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University. He formerly held the Gordon Global Fellowship at the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation. Mr. Siddiqi has also worked with community-based organizations and international-development bodies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Transparency International, and the Legal Aid Organization of Afghanistan.

Mr. Siddiqi’s research and writing interests include international relations, security, development, and the Global South, and he has particular expertise on South Asia and the Middle East. He is often consulted on issues pertaining to the region by students, journalists, and governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Afghanistan Task-Force.

Mr. Siddiqi is a columnist for the Express Tribune (the Pakistani affiliate of the New York Times' International Herald Tribune), and writes for several publications and research organizations, including Asia Times, The Herald, ZNet, the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Transnational Institute, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Mr. Siddiqi also works at a legal-aid clinic in Toronto, practising in various areas of poverty law. He holds an LL.B degree from the University of Warwick (U.K.) and an LL.M degree from the University of Toronto. Born and raised in Karachi (Pakistan), Shibil currently lives in Toronto.

He blogs at www.shibil.com.