Alykhan Velshi
Alykhan Velshi is a lawyer, policy analyst, and ministerial assistant. He has worked at the predominantly neoconservative American Enterprise Institute and was manager of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, where he cofounded the Center for Law and Counterterrorism with Andrew C. McCarthy. He has written pieces in support of George W. Bushs foreign and military policies. Velshi previously worked as Director of Issues Management for Stephen Harper.
Velshi was born and raised in Toronto. He attended the Toronto French School, a private school in Lawrence Park. He holds a law degree from the London School of Economics and passed the New York bar exam in 2006. He is an Ismaili Muslim and is a distant relative of financial analyst Ali Velshi and former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Murad Velshi.
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