Noah Tucker is an associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Central Asia Program at George Washington University. He was previously Managing Editor at Registan.net and Senior Editor for Central Asia at RFE/RL.  He has served as research consultant for a variety of international organizations seeking expertise on religion and conflict in Central Asia, including USAID, OSCE, UNDP, the US State Department, USIP, UNOCT, The Global Coalition against Daesh, the French Ministry of Defense, Freedom House, and a variety of other government and NGO clients.     

Noah has worked on Central Asian issues since 2002, specializing in religion, national identity, ethnic conflict and social media. He received an MA from Harvard in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in 2008 and is scheduled to complete a mid-career PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2024 on the relationship between trauma and violent extremism in Central Asia. He has spent six years living and working in in the region, primarily in Uzbekistan and Southern Kyrgyzstan and works in Russian and Uzbek.