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Paula Newberg is a specialist in the political economy of states encountering conflict and economic dislocation. A longtime scholar of human rights and a specialist in governance, development and democracy, Dr. Newberg has worked for more than twenty-five years in a host of countries caught in the web of complex political change and crisis (including Afghanistan, Kosovo, Yemen, Rwanda and Turkey) and across the transition states of central and eastern Europe, and south and central Asia. Dr. Newberg taught for many years at Columbia, Rutgers and Johns Hopkins universities, and was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has spent most of the past eight years as a special advisor to the United Nations and the United Nations Foundation, and is currently working with donor states and organizations to help revive the university system in Afghanistan. A frequent commentator, lecturer and regular columnist for The Los Angeles Times, Dr. Newberg is the author of books and monographs on justice and politics in Pakistan (Judge the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan), conflict in Kashmir (Double Betrayal: Human Rights and Insurgency in Kashmir), the politics of assistance to Afghanistan (Politics at the Heart: The Architecture of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan) and a wide range of publications on human rights and democracy. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and received her doctorate in politics from the University of Chicago.