Prakhar Sharma
Political Science / Ph.D. Candidate
Biography
Prakhar Sharma is
a PhD Candidate in political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He studies civil wars from a comparative
perspective. Prakhar's dissertation focuses on a historical analysis of state
building in Afghanistan. In the past, Prakhar held research roles with Yale
University, United States Institute of Peace
and S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore); visiting
fellowships with Stimson
Center and the United Nations University (Tokyo); and consulting positions with
the World Bank, UNICEF
and Mercy Corps in Afghanistan. In
addition to his doctoral training in political science, Prakhar has graduate
training in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore (2007) and
in Business Administration from the Asian Institute of Management in the
Philippines (2003).