# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akbar-s-ahmed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:09.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akbar-s-ahmed"
name: "Akbar S. Ahmed"
slug: "akbar-s-ahmed"
description: "Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently is a professor of International Relations and holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, D.C. Akbar Ahmed served as the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland. He currently is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center."
tagline: "Anthropologist, bureaucrat, scholar, writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akbar_Ahmed_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-01-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.7
  momentum:             8.716216216216216
  historical:           9.224804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014137/"
    handle:    "nm0014137"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/akbar.cfm"
sources:
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    title: "اکبر صلاح الدین احمد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "أكبر أحمد (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF"
    title: "اكبر احمد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ahmed"
    title: "Akbar Ahmed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ahmed"
    title: "Akbar Ahmed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF"
    title: "اکبر صلاح‌الدین احمد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_S._Ahmed"
    title: "Akbar S. Ahmed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%B0_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%B8_%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%A6"
    title: "ਅਕਬਰ ਐਸ ਅਹਿਮਦ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF"
    title: "اکبر ایس احمد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%2C_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Ахмед, Акбар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3694751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1401445"
    title: "Akbar Ahmed"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump