Umair Bin Riaz is a journalist from Pakistan who is currently serving at Voice of America, Washington, D.C., as an Atlas Corps–EGLI fellow. Riaz has nine years of work experience in print, electronic, and online media and has done news reporting, editing, script writing, researching, interviewing, and broadcasting for some of the major Pakistani and international news organizations. He has extensively covered international relations, politics, culture, terrorism, conflicts, and government affairs. Riaz completed an MA in international relations and a BE in software engineering in Pakistan and is currently working on an MPhil in European studies program at the Area Study Centre for Europe in Pakistan, where he also served as a research associate for three months before arriving in the U.S. in May 2016.

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