Nasir Ahmad Farahmand is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Global Studies Center as part of the Practitioner at Risk program through the Scholar at Risk Network. Nasir was born in Herat, Afghanistan and immigrated to the United States with his family in 2021. Previously, Nasir was the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of Jami Private University in Herat since 2016. He is also a member of the directorate board of Herat Professionals Shura (council), a leading non-profit organization working for Democracy and Human Rights since 2001 in Afghanistan. Nasir has also contributed to six research publications as the head of each research team from 2016 to 2021. The publications are all produced in Farsi and you can find electronic copies here: https://www.heratps.org/research/.
Topics that he has written on include the following: Good Governance, Centralism or Decentralism (2016); Economic Development of Herat (2017); Afghanistan Election, Opportunities & Challenges (2018); Ethnicity and Political Development in Afghanistan (2019); Obstacles on Democracy in Afghanistan (2020); and Exploring the Reflection of Democratic Values in Afghanistan School's Curriculum (2021). From 2003 to 2016, he also worked as Finance Officer in the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Nasir has a Master of Arts in Economics from Kurukshetra University, India and is pursuing a PhD from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India.