Amit Pandya
Senior Associate
Amit Pandya directs Stimson’s Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project, which focuses on developing greater understanding of how experts in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa approach transnational security issues, including human security and nontraditional security threats and challenges.
Pandya is a South Asia expert and international lawyer. He has been Counsel to the Government Operations and Foreign Affairs Committees of the House of Representatives, and held senior positions at the Departments of Defense and State and at the US Agency for International Development. He has also practiced law and worked in various civil and human rights nonprofit organizations, and was formerly an ethnographer and teacher.
He holds degrees from Oxford, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown.
Selected Publications
“No Man’s Sea: International Rules and Pragmatic Cooperation” in Laipson and Pandya (eds.), The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges (Stimson, 2009)
“Faith, Justice and Violence: Islam in Political Context” in Pandya and Laipson (eds.), Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World (Stimson, 2009)
“The Shape of Change: Nature, Economics, Politics and Ideology” in Pandya and Laipson (eds.), Transnational Trends: Middle Eastern and Asian Views (Stimson, 2008)
