Gowher Rizvi (Program Co-Director/USA) Gowher Rizvi is vice provost for international programs at the University of Virginia and professor at the McIntire School of Commerce. From 2002 to 2008, he was director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Previously to that, he was the Ford Foundation's Representative in New Delhi, having served as the Foundation's Deputy Director for Governance and Civil Society, as a program officer in the Foundation's Asia division, and as the Asia Society's director of contemporary affairs. Gowher Rizvi came to the Ford and Asia foundations from Oxford University where he held several positions. The founder and editor of Contemporary South Asia, an academic and policy studies journal, Rizvi is the author or editor of several books including South Asia in a Changing International Order, South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers (co-author with Barry Buzan), Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (co-editor with Robert Holland), Indo-British Relations in Retrospect (co-editor with Anthony Copley), and Beyond Boundaries (co-editor with Paul Evans and Navneeta Chaddha Behera). He was a Rhodes Scholar and received his D.Phil. from Trinity College, University of Oxford. E-mail: gowher_rizvi@virginia.edu