Vikram Singh

Vikram Singh

Vikram J. Singh is a senior advisor to the Asia Program at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Singh has been a leader in innovation in public policy and global affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of State, and major non-profits. Vikram J. Singh was previously the vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. Further, he served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia at the Pentagon, where he advised senior leadership on all policy matters pertaining to the development and implementation of defense strategies and plans for the region. Until November 2011, Singh was the deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. Department of State. He has also served in the U.S. Department of Defense as a senior advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan, representing the department in National Security Council policy reviews of the region and the war in Afghanistan, and as a senior advisor responsible for the department’s post-2014 strategic approach to South and Central Asia.