Nermeen Shaikh

Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at the independent television news hour Democracy Now! based in New York City. She is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power published by Columbia University Press. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women's Initiative and regularly speaks and writes on issues ranging from global politics and film to psychoanalysis and literature. She was previously the Managing Editor at Asia Society and has worked in development and research organizations in London, Islamabad, and Tehran. She has a B.A. (Honours) from Queen’s University and an M.Phil. in politics from Cambridge University.