Abdul Hamid Hatsaandh

Abdul Hamid Hatsaandh is a third-year PhD student in the International Education program at NYU Steinhardt. His research focuses on whether Educational Technology (EdTech) expands access to education or reinforces inequities, particularly in resource-constrained contexts.

Before beginning his PhD at NYU, Abdul Hamid worked with UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) team and authored the Afghanistan Background Study report for UNESCO's South Asia Report (2022), Non-State Actors in Education: Who Chooses, Who Loses? Prior to that, he served as a reforms planning advisor at Afghanistan's Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVET-A), an education research manager with USAID's Afghan Children Read (ACR) project, and a research officer with NYU's Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education in Afghanistan (ALSE).

Before starting his PhD, Abdul Hamid and his family were evacuated from Afghanistan in 2022 through a collaboration between NYU and Scholars at Risk.

Abdul Hamid holds a master’s degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University, completed through the Fulbright program, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Pune, India, through the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) program.