Moeed W. Yusuf is a Pakistani national security scholar who 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

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on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning from 24 December 2019 to 16 May 2021. Before joining the government, Yusuf was the Associate Vice President for Asia at the

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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. 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.

Education

He holds

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from Shorter College; Masters and

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degrees from

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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. On 24 December 2019, he was appointed as the Special Assistant to the

on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning. Yusuf served as the associate vice president at the Asia Center at the

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Books

* ''Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia'' (2018) *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) *''Getting it Right in Afghanistan'' (co-edited) (2013)

References

Living people Imran Khan administration Boston University alumni Pakistani columnists Quaid-i-Azam University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Pakistani government officials Pakistani political commentators Pakistani economists Political economists Pakistani emigrants to the United States {{Pakistan-bio-stub