Saad Gulzar

Saad Gulzar is associate professor of political science and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs, with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science. He has been a Kellogg faculty fellow since 2025.

Gulzar’s research centers on political economy, comparative politics, development, and environmental governance and conservation, with a regional focus on South Asia. His work examines how government performance – shaped by politicians and bureaucrats managing large-scale bureaucratic and political organizations – affects citizens’ daily lives through the delivery of social programs, provision of public goods, and management of political campaigns. More recently, his research has expanded to explore environmental governance and conservation.

His scholarship has been published in leading journals including Nature, the American Political Science Review, and The Review of Economic Studies. Gulzar holds a PhD in politics from New York University and previously served as an assistant professor at Stanford University and Princeton University.