Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Short Bio

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. She served as a Member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. While in Parliament, she focused on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and on defending the rights of Muslim women.

She has written several books including “Infidel” (2007), “Nomad: from Islam to America, a Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations” (2010), “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now” (2015) and “The Challenge of Dawa” (2017). Her new book, “Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights,” was published by Harper Collins in 2021.

Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, she was a Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University, and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

She received her Master’s degree in Political Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands.