Zahed Amanullah

Zahed Amanullah

Resident Senior Fellow

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Zahed Amanullah is a Resident Senior Fellow at ISD and leads on ISD’s civil society engagement, communications, and partnerships, coordinating the public and private sectors with activists, frontline workers, and relevant civil society networks to counter disinformation, hate speech, extremist propaganda and recruitment. This work includes research and capacity building for NGOs in Kenya, Europe, and the Middle East. He recently authored Between Two Extremes, a study of extremist messaging during the 2017 Kenya elections. He has given testimony to the UK and European parliaments and has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Channel 4, Sky News, the Guardian, CNN International, Bloomberg, and Newsweek.