Pakistani scholar and author
Moeed W. Yusuf is a Pakistani national security scholar and administrator who is currently serving as the 3rd vice-chancellor of the Beaconhouse National University.[1] Previously, served as the 9th National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Previously he served in the capacity of a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on the National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning from 24 December 2019 to 16 May 2021.[2]
Before joining the government, Yusuf was the Associate Vice President for Asia at the Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and previously a Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School.[3]
Yusuf has taught Political Science/International Relations at Boston University, George Washington University, the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and the Quaid-e-Azam University.[3]
Education
He holds Bachelor of Business Administration from Shorter College; Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Boston University.[4]
Career
On 25 September 2019, he was appointed as Chairperson of Pakistan's Strategic Policy Planning Cell under National Security Division for a two-year period.[5]
On 24 December 2019, he was appointed as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning.[6]
Yusuf served as the associate vice president at the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace.[7]
Bibliography
- Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia (2018)[8][9]
- Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Challenge (Editor) (2014)
- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia: From a Peacebuilding Lens (Editor) (2014)
- South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures (co-edited) (2013)[2]
- Getting it Right in Afghanistan (co-edited) (2013)[2]
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