Raqib Hameed Naik is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. CSOH's mission is to understand, prevent, and combat the multifaceted phenomena of organized hate in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Naik also founded India Hate Lab, a research initiative focused on analyzing hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, and Hindutva Watch, a hate tracker that documents the rise of Hindu nationalism and the persecution of religious minorities in India. The Washington Post has described Hindutva Watch as one of India’s only and most comprehensive real-time datasets of hate crimes. 

Born and raised in Kashmir, Naik has nearly a decade of reporting experience in Kashmir, India, China, and...