Paul Fishstein
Fellow, Belfer Center & Carr Center
Experience
Paul Fishstein (MS, Agricultural and Resource Economics; BA, English Literature) served as Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), a Kabul-based, policy research institution, from 2005 to 2008. Before joining AREU as Deputy Director in 2004, Paul worked in Kabul and at provincial levels on USAID-funded initiatives to strengthen the management of health care delivery, and from 1989-93 managed refugee assistance and "cross-border" reconstruction activities in Quetta and Islamabad, Pakistan. Paul first worked in Afghanistan during 1977-79 as a teacher trainer in Kabul and northern Afghanistan. Paul has also worked as a Researcher at the World Bank in Washington, focusing on agricultural policies and food security in India and Africa, and provided assistance on financial analysis, organizational development, and sustainability planning to health organizations in developing countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Romania, and Tanzania. Paul is currently a joint fellow with the Belfer & Carr Center involved in a research project looking at the relationship between aid and stabilization in Afghanistan.
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October 28, 2009
"Afghans Need to Find a New Model of Democracy"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Paul Fishstein, Fellow, Belfer Center & Carr Center
"While democracy is notoriously difficult to define, it is generally considered to be something positive. Until the debacle of the August presidential elections, 'fledgling democracy' was touted as one of the west's great achievements in Afghanistan."
