Dr. Muqtedar Khan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.  He is a Senior Nonresident Scholar with the New Lines Institute, coordinating their Universal Values and Good Governance initiative. He was the academic director of the US State Departments’ National Security Institute, 2016-2019 and is the academic director of the American Foreign Policy Institute, 2019-2025, at the Institute for Global Studies, UD. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow of the Brookings Institution (2003-2008) a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Policy (2017-2020) and a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy (2001-2016).
He has his Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University, an MA in International studies from Florida International University, an MBA from Bombay University, and a BE from Osmania University.
He is the author of the award-winning book Islam and Good Governance: Political Philosophy of Ihsan published in April 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. He is also the author of several other books: American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (2004), Islamic Democratic Discourse (2006), Debating Moderate Islam (University of Utah Press, 2007). He has edited several E-Books. His latest is Emerging World Order after the Russia-Ukraine War (Newlines Institute, 2023).
His articles and commentaries can be found at www.ijtihad.org. His academic publications can be found at https://udel.academia.edu/MuqtedarKhan.

He hosts a YouTube show called Khanversations at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfMuqtedarKhan. ​