Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli

Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is, as of 2008, the senior advisor to the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [" [http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/kheli-bio.html Biography of Shirin Tahir-Kheli -- Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State] ," "White House"] and a director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations.

Prior to her appointment, Tahir-Kheli was a research professor at Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, DC, where she was the founding Director of the South Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Institute. Tahir-Kheli was an alternate United States representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs serving from 1990 to 1993. She also served as Director of Political Military Affairs and then as Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs from 1984 to 1989 with the National Security Council staff. From 1982 to 1984, Tahir-Kheli was a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State.

Ambassador Tahir-Kheli has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Ambassador Tahir-Kheli is the daughter of the famous scientist, scholar and educationist of Pakistan Dr. Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui whose migrated to Pakistan from Hyderabad Deccan.

References