Moeed Yusuf

Moeed W. Yusuf is a Pakistani national security scholar who is currently serving as the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the capacity of an Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning since 24 December 2019.[1]

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 concurrently a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.[2]

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.[2]

Education

He holds Bachelors of Business Administration from the Shorter College; Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Boston University.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

Yusuf served as the associate vice president at the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace.[6]

Books
  • Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia (2018)[7]
  • South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures (co-edited) (2013)[1]
  • Getting it Right in Afghanistan (co-edited) (2013)[1]

References
  1. "Chairperson SPPC Bio". National Security Division.
  2. "Moeed W. Yusuf SAPM on National Security & Strategic Policy Planning".
  3. https://www.bu.edu/pardee/community/moeed-yusuf/
  4. "Moeed appointed planning cell chief". Dawn. September 26, 2019.
  5. "PM appoints Dr Moeed Yusuf as special assistant on national security". The Express Tribune. December 24, 2019.
  6. "USIP dismisses false claims against Dr Moeed Yusuf". Business Recorder. October 4, 2019.
  7. "Book Review: Brokering peace in nuclear environments". The Express Tribune. September 12, 2018.


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