Dr. Raghav Sharma is an Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Afghanistan Studies at the School of International Affairs, O.P Jindal Global University, India. He is the author of "Nation, Ethnicity and the Conflict in Afghanistan: Political Islam and the Rise of Ethno–Politics (1992-1996)". Prior to this he has worked in the humanitarian sector in Afghanistan, taught under the Good Governance Afghanistan Program at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany and done consultancies for the Aga Khan Development Network and Integrity Watch Afghanistan among others. He occasionally writes media commentaries on Afghanistan and has also published in peer reviewed journals in his subject area. His current  research project seeks to critically examines the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and the state of Pakistan.