Shaan Shaikh Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Manage research projects, administration, and communications for the CSIS Missile Defense Project, directed by Dr. Tom Karako. Our research portfolio covers air and missile defense, long-range fires, nuclear forces, and emerging technologies. We are funded by the U.S. government, philanthropic foundations, and defense industry.• Author rigorous, policy-relevant reports and commentaries, including Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense (Aug 2024), Countering Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (Nov 2023), The Air and Missile War in Nagorno-Karabakh (Dec 2020), and The Missile War in Yemen (June 2020), among others.• Serve as managing editor for program website missilethreat.csis.org, producing 30+ missile profiles and numerous interactive features. Missile Threat is the most popular CSIS microsite, launched in August 2016 with now over eleven million unique page views. • Co-developed and managed 15+ full-day nuclear crisis simulations in collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues, with exercises situated in East Asia, South Asia, Western Europe, the Antarctic, and the Middle East.• Planned and managed 25+ public events with 60+ audience members, featuring U.S. Senators, House Representatives, senior military officers, and academics.• Led development of "The Future of Missile Defense," a three-day executive education program designed for mid-career professionals working in defense and foreign policy. • Participated in several CSIS diversity and mentorship programs, including serving as a CSIS Policy Fellowship Capstone Advisor (2024), CSIS DLIA Junior Staff focus group member (2022), and Trinity Washington University mentor (2021); editing CSIS’s Represent article series (2021); speaking for CSIS’s Opening Doors event series (2021); and coordinating CSIS’s first public event on DEI featuring Rep. Anthony Brown (2020).• Granted Baumgartner Hamre Employee Recognition Award (BHERA) in Fall 2022.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Copyedit reports for a think tank focused on global health and development, animal welfare, artificial intelligence, and climate change.

Washington, D.C.

Conducted open-source analysis of daily military, political, and humanitarian developments in Syria, using both English and Arabic news sources and social media.

Arlington, Virginia

Jonathan M. Tisch Summer Fellow at the Advanced Systems Cost Analysis Division (ASCAD), Office of the Secretary of Defense/Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (OSD/CAPE). In this role, I conducted a cost-benefit analysis of U.S. ballistic missile defense system sales in the Middle East. Held interim secret security clearance.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Strategic Studies, 3.89/4.0

Activities and Societies: Effective Altruism Fellowship, Defense & Intelligence ClubFocused on strategic studies and research methods..

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International Relations & Arabic, 3.74/4.0

Activities and Societies: Tufts Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), Tufts Institute for Global Leadership.