​Kamran Bokhari, Ph.D., is the senior director of the Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, where he was previously director of analytical development. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa's Professional Development Institute. Bokhari has served as the Central Asia studies course coordinator at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute.

He was a fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Dr. Bokhari has also been a senior consultant with the World Bank. He has 15 years of experience in the private sector intelligence space, during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis and forecasts.

Bokhari is the author of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes: Wars of Ideas: Theology, Interpretation and Power in the Muslim World (Rowman Littlefield, 2021); Strategic Analysis in Support of International Policy Making (Rowman Littlefield, 2017), Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East: Regional Imbalance or Disintegration? (Rowman Littlefield, 2017), Oxford Handbook on Islam & Politics (Oxford University, 2013); and Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah, 2007).

His core areas of expertise are: geopolitical/intelligence analysis of the Middle East, South Asia and Central Asia; governance; democratization; civil-military relations; comparative political systems; geosectarianism; countering violent extremism; counterterrorism and deradicalization; and Islamist/Muslim moderation. Bokhari has briefed various U.S., Canadian and United Kingdom government agencies; published thousands of analytical, theoretical, and op-ed articles; presented papers at international academic and policy forums; and given hundreds of interviews to leading global media organizations.

Bokhari earned his doctorate from the University of Westminster after successfully defending his thesis, “Moderations Among Salafists & Jihadists.” His Twitter handle is @KamranBokhari.​