at the National Security Council, The White House. Opposition to Donald Trump In 2020, Tahir-Kheli, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him." Education Ambassador Tahir-Kheli has an MA and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and past member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Awards In 2005, Shirin Tahir-Kheli received the Carnegie Corporation of New York "Immigrants: The Pride of America" award for her contributions to public service. Named by Newsweek in 2011 as one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World". As a Carnegie Scholar, award for work on manuscript covering the 2003-2006 decision making at the White House on Democracy Promotion in the Muslim world, "Diplomacy Without Negotiation". Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2009-2011. 2016 Award by Carnegie for forthcoming work: "Before the Age of Prejudice: A Muslim Woman's White House Work for Three Presidents." Bibliography India, Pakistan and the United States: Breaking with the Past. Council on Foreign Relations. 1977. p. 156. . The United States and Pakistan: The Evolution of an Influence Relationship. Prager. 1982. p. 169. . Manipulating Religion for Political Gain in Pakistan: Consequences for the U.S. and the Region. Johns Hopkins. SAIS. 2015. Family and personal life Tahir-Kheli is the daughter of Pakistani physicist Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui who migrated to Pakistan from Hyderabad, India. She was married to Raza Tahir-Kheli, Emeritus Professor of Physics, PhD, and former chairman of the physics department at Temple University. They have two grown children and four grandchildren. References External links United States Department of State: Shirin Tahir-Kheli Foreign Policy Research Institute: August 2017. Track II Indo-Pakistani Diplomacy (1995-2003): The BALUSA Group American women political scientists American political scientists American women diplomats Johns Hopkins University faculty Living people Ohio Wesleyan University alumni American diplomats Pakistani emigrants to the United States Pakistani people of Hyderabadi descent Pennsylvania Republicans Year of birth missing (living people) Foreign Policy Research Institute American women academics