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. Naik founded HindutvaWatch.org, a real-time database tracking hate crimes and human rights abuses in India, which The Washington Post has described as one of the country’s only and most comprehensive such datasets.

He also founded India Hate Lab, a research initiative analyzing hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories targeting India’s religious minorities across both digital and offline spaces. It is the only organization that produces annual data on in-person hate speech events, revealing the role of far-right groups and politicians in anti-minority mobilization.

Naik serves as a Fellow at the Political Conflict, Gender, and People’s Rights Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley.

His work and words have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, ABC News, Forbes, Wired, PBS, NPR, LA Times, AFP, Reuters, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The Intercept, France 24, Al Jazeera and others.