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Peer named deputy director of Future of Conflict program

Basharat Peer

Basharat Peer has been named deputy director of Crisis Group’s Future of Conflict program, which is focused on climate change, digital technologies and the global economy.

Since June 2021, Peer has been a contributing opinion editor at The New York Times. As an international opinion editor, he commissioned and edited essays about South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

From May to December 2013, he edited India Ink, New York Times’ India blog.

He has also freelanced for The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman, The National and The Financial Times Weekend magazine.

He has also published two books.

Peer has a M.A. in journalism from Columbia University, New York.

You can congratulate Peer on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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