Karl Inderfurth
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Karl Frederick Inderfurth (born September 29, 1946) is an American
Early life
Inderfurth was born in
Career
Inderfurth
During Inderfurth's tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, India and Pakistan tested its first nuclear devices in 1998, the Taliban tightened its grip on Afghanistan and extended safe haven to Osama bin Laden, India and Pakistan fought a brief war over the area of Kargil in Kashmir, and there was coup in Pakistan by Gen. Pervez Musharraf removing civilian Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. During this time, Inderfurth also oversaw Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Global Humanitarian Demining 2010 Initiative.
In 2002, Inderfurth appeared in the BBC documentary
Inderfurth co-authored a book with Dr. Loch K. Johnson entitled, Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (2004) and is a frequent op-ed contributor to major American newspapers.
Current work
Currently, Inderfurth is an adjunct professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He was a senior advisor and the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Previously he served as the director of the international affairs graduate program at the Elliott School. His areas of expertise focused on US-South Asian relations and national security decision making at the National Security Council and the Department of State. He also taught an undergraduate course on "Film and US Foreign Policy."
Since joining the George Washington community in 2001, Inderfurth helped organize visits by high-ranking diplomats and heads-of-state such as former
Inderfurth serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Fulbright Association and is on the board of trustees of The Asia Foundation.
Inderfurth joined the Board of Directors of
References
- ^ Mohapatra, Bikash (9 November 2012). "An interview with Karl Inderfurth", [rediff.com]. Retrieved on 7 September 2021.
- ^ "NDI Welcomes New Members of its Board of Directors". ndi.org. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2014-10-16.