Shafaq Khan is a graduate student in the Security Studies Program. In summer 2025, she served as a Political Fellow at the U.S. Mission to NATO. Previously, she was the Roger L. Hale Fellow at Ploughshares and a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at the Stimson Center. She has also held roles in congressional offices within the U.S. House of Representatives.

Shafaq has presented her research and spoken about her career on panels hosted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues, Princeton University, and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellows Program.

Shafaq received her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she wrote her senior thesis on the abrogation of Article 370 and its implications for Kashmir.