Postdoctoral AssociateAffiliation:NYU Abu Dhabi Education: Masters and M Phil. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad; PhD The University of Western Australia
Rafat Mahmood is a postdoctoral fellow in Economics. She holds a Masters and M.Phil. in Economics from Quaid-i-University, Islamabad, and a Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia. Rafat Mahmood is primarily interested in topics in political economy and international security. Her Ph.D. dissertation explores various dimensions of terrorism, analyzing the impact of US drone strikes on terrorism in one of her papers. Her current work includes an analysis of the determinants of civil conflict and war and the role of religious seminaries in terrorism. She is also a junior fellow at AALIMS and a research fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Centre at LUMS. Prior to her current appointment, Rafat was a researcher at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.