Experience

United States Agency for Global Media

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief, Afghanistan Service

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  -Telling Dari and Pashto speaking audiences the truth that is increasingly in short supply as a result of the shrinking free media landscape in Afghanistan after the fall of the republic in the country. - Managing all aspects of TV, radio, web, social media and the newly launched 24/7 direct-to-home satellite channel broadcasting to Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto languages. - Heading an excellent team of managing editors, executive producers, broadcasters, editors and reporters in Washington and the South and Central Asia (SCA) region. -Providing editorial leadership to 12 hours of radio programming in Pashto and Dari languages from Washington to millions of Pashto and Dari speaking audiences in SCA. Show less

• Supervisory Managing Editor, VOA's Extremism Watch Desk

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2021

  Served as the Supervisory Managing Editor for Voice of America’s Global Extremism Watch Desk responsible for conceiving, editing and directing the development and production of highly targeted, in-depth enterprise reports on national security, extremism and terrorism for use by VOA’s Central News(English) and its 44+ language services.

• Supervisory News Editor South and Central Asia

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Supervised the coverage of news to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq and the Kurdish regions in Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

• Senior Editor/ Acting Managing Editor Afghanistan Service

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Managed and supervised 6 hours of daily live radio and half an hour of daily live TV broadcast to Afghanistan. Supervised a team of reporters and editors in Washington, D.C and a network of reporters and editors in Afghanistan, assigning them work as news events dictated in the target region and around the world.

• Senior Editor, Afghanistan Service

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Led a team of 20 employees and contractors in Washington D.C and a dozen stringers in Afghanistan with the the responsibility of assigning tasks, copy editing texts in target languages (Dari, Pashto), attending daily editorial meetings at the SCA division level and making editorial decisions about how a story ought to be covered in a neutral and balanced way in line with all video, audio, digital journalism standards and in line with VOA’s Charter.

• Writer, VOA's Asia Desk

  • Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Wrote original stories in English on U.S foreign policy in Asia particularly South Asia. (stories are available under my byline: Hasib Danish Alikozai)

• Internernational broadcaster

  • May 2009 - Jan 2013

  I joined the Afghanistan service of the Voice of America in May of 2009 as an international broadcaster and have contributed to the service in different capacities until January of 2013 including radio talk show host, TV anchor, reporter and newscaster.



NATO

• Belgium
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cultural Advisor

  • Oct 2006 - Nov 2008

  Provided cultural awareness and advice to high-ranking NATO military and civilian leaders in Kabul in addition to providing simultaneous interpretation/translation to the Command Group at NATO and Afghan officials during key events like the Executive Steering Committee Meetings, Tripartite Engagements (Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S, inside and outside Afghanistan), and JPJs ( Joint Afghan and Pakistan Peace Jirgas). Provided cultural awareness and advice to high-ranking NATO military and civilian leaders in Kabul in addition to providing simultaneous interpretation/translation to the Command Group at NATO and Afghan officials during key events like the Executive Steering Committee Meetings, Tripartite Engagements (Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S, inside and outside Afghanistan), and JPJs ( Joint Afghan and Pakistan Peace Jirgas).