When the Somali pirates exploded into the pages of the international news in late 2008, Bahadur quit his market research job and packed his bags, hopping a series of five flights into Somalia on a lone quest to meet some present-day buccaneers. He spent a total of three months in Puntland—an autonomous region of Somalia and the heart of the pirates' tribal homeland—conducting research with the journalist son of its newly-elected President.
Bahadur has published articles in The Times, The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Globe and Mail, and has advised the US government on Somali piracy. He has worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News, and his media appearances include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC, NPR, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, amongst others.
In 2012, he held the position of managing editor of Somalia Report, an independent news service employing over one hundred Somali journalists in Somalia and Kenya.
Bahadur currently lives in Nairobi, where his present research interests include a social network analysis of the organizational structure, hierarchy, and clan relationships within the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.
He is also an associate at The Security Governance Group, a private research and consulting firm headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
In 2012, he held the position of managing editor of Somalia Report, an independent news service employing over one hundred Somali journalists in Somalia and Kenya.
Bahadur currently lives in Nairobi, where his present research interests include a social network analysis of the organizational structure, hierarchy, and clan relationships within the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.
He is also an associate at The Security Governance Group, a private research and consulting firm headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
