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 the United States. His journalism has centered on political conflict, human rights, religious minorities, refugees, press freedom, environmental issues, and Hindu nationalism.

Naik’s work has been featured or quoted by numerous prominent media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, France 24, Al Jazeera, NPR, WIRED, Vox, South China Morning Post, Voice of America, PBS, BBC, The Guardian, LA Times, Vårt Land, ARTE, Forbes, The Nation Magazine, The Wire, Caravan Magazine, CBC News, CBC Radio, Al Jazeera Media Institute, The Defense Post, The Globe Post, Inkstick Media, Frontline Magazine, StoriesAsia, The Third Pole, TRT World, Climate Tracker, Rest of World, Reuters, HuffPost, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, Verdens Gang, and others.