PM Khan appointed Moeed Yusuf as National Security Adviser
Prime Minister Imran Khan has officially appointed Dr Moeed Yusuf as the National Security Adviser on Tuesday.
Dr Yusuf was serving as Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning since December 2019.
The cabinet division issued a notification confirming Dr Yusuf’s appointment for the post and said the designation will be equivalent to a federal minister.
Profile
Moeed W. Yusuf was the associate vice president of the Asia center at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and author of ‘Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia’ released by Stanford University Press.
Before joining USIP, Yusuf was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard Kennedy School. He has also worked at the Brookings Institution.
In 2007, he co-founded Strategic and Economic Policy Research, a private sector consultancy firm in Pakistan. Yusuf has also consulted for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and the Stockholm Policy Research Institute, among others. From 2004-2007, he was a full-time consultant with Pakistan’s premier development-sector think tank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).
Yusuf taught at Boston University, George Washington University, and Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan.
He holds a Masters in International Relations and PhD in Political Science from Boston University.