Leitner Seminar Series (with IR Workshop): Zuhad Hai

Zuhad hai is an Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University. He researches international political economy, with a focus on globalization, structural and technological change, and environmental politics.

Transformative economic changes such as technological innovation, globalization, and climate change generate two political needs: the need to adjust economically, and the need to deal with uncertainty. His research studies the political consequences of adjustment and uncertainty, as well as how political institutions and policies evolve to address these two challenges.

He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Global Governance at Princeton University from 2023-24. He received my Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University in 2023. Before his Ph.D., he worked as a full-time pre-doc at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Before that, he obtained an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Grinnell College.