Dr Ayesha Siddiqa has a PhD in War Studies from King’s College, London. She is the author of two books on Pakistan’s military – Pakistan’s Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-1999 and Military Inc., Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy.

She is the first inaugural Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Ford Fellow, a Research Fellow at CMC, Sandia National Laboratories, and a Charles Wallace Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Dr Siddiqa has published in various academic journals and is currently working on her book on sociology of radicalism in Pakistan.