Brigitta Schuchert is a program officer for South Asia at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She joined USIP after three years working with the Stimson Center's South Asia Program where she served as managing editor for “South Asian Voices,” an online policy platform on South Asia's strategic and security affairs. From 2014 to 2017, Brigitta worked with New York University's international campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai as a writing fellow. Her research focuses on China-South Asia relations, religion and nationalism, and territorial disputes. She received her master’s in security studies with a concentration in terrorism and substate violence from Georgetown University in 2019, and her bachelor's in religious studies from Bryn Mawr College in 2014.