Sayed Madadi

Sayed Madadi's work focuses on the political economy of governance and conflict, climate change and green development. He was previously a Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and a Research Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets. Before that, he led the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Afghanistan peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar, and was Director of the Afghanistan Civil Service Institute in Kabul.

His writings and analysis have appeared in Stanford International Policy Review, Journal of Strategic and Security Studies, the Atlantic, War on the Rocks, Al-Jazeera English, the National Interest, Foreign Policy, Diplomat, BBC Persian, and numerous European and Afghan publications. He is also the author of a book chapter on post-conflict development in In Search of Peace for Afghanistan: A Collection of Essays, published in 2020 by Kakar History Foundation and Heart of Asia Society.