Michael Kugelman is a resident senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council. In addition, he is nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and writer of Foreign Policy magazine’s weekly South Asia Brief. 

Previously, Kugelman led the Wilson Center’s research and programming on South Asia, with a focus on Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and US relations with each. He was appointed as founding director of the Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute in 2022.

Kugelman’s writing and views have appeared in a wide range of outlets and publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, CNN, NPR, BBC, and Fox News, and in outlets across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. He has a master’s in law and diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.