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Shabnam Yousaf

Founder & Director

Biography

Shabnam Yousaf holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, where her research examined the Belt and Road Initiative and American interests in South Asia. She has served as a visiting fellow at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University. She brings more than fifteen years of experience spanning academic research, nonprofit leadership, and NGO program management, and she writes and publishes regularly on US-Pakistan affairs.

Publications

  1. From Aid to Trade: Pak-US Critical Minerals Partnership Journal article · Pakistan Journal of American Studies · 2025
  2. American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture Conference paper · Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin · 2021
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