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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.
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National Security Advisor (Pakistan)

Official advisory position in the Pakistan government

The National Security Advisor (NSA) is the senior official on the National Security Council of Pakistan, and the chief adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on national security and international affairs.^[1]Moeed Yusuf served as the 9th NSA from 17 May 2021 to 3 April 2022, appointed by Prime Minister Imran Khan had the same rank as a Federal Cabinet Minister.^[2]

The National Security Adviser participates in National Security Council to brief the participants on issues involving the national security of the country and regularly advise the Prime Minister on all matters relating to internal and external threats to the country, and oversees strategic issues.^[3] In addition, the adviser frequently accompanies the Prime Minister on foreign trips.^[3]

The National Security Adviser is supported by the National Security Division (NSD) at the Prime Minister's Secretariat in Islamabad that produces research and briefings for the National Security A

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Moeed Yusuf

Graduate Fellow (2008-2010)

Education

BBA, Shorter College; MA, Boston University

Expertise

Regional security; political economy; trade and sustainable development; South Asia

Biography

Moeed Yusuf is currently Director of South Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Before joining the U.S. Institute of Peace, he was a PhD student and Teaching Fellow at Boston University’s Political Science Department and a Research Fellow at the Boston University Pardee Center. He is also a Research Fellow at Strategic and Economic Policy Research, Pakistan and a Visiting Associate at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan. Most recently, he was based at the Brookings Institution as a Special Guest researcher.

Moeed Yusuf has taught courses on political economy and defense economics at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. He writes a weekly column in The Friday Times, Pakistan’s leading English weekly paper. He has served as a member of a number of advisory groups in Pakistan including the worki

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Dr. Moeed Yusuf

Holder of a Masters in International Relations and PhD in Political Science from Boston University, Dr. Moeed Yusuf is currently serving as the Director of South Asia programmes at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). He has been engaged in expanding USIP’s work on Pakistan/South Asia since 2010. His current research focuses on youth and democratic institutions in Pakistan, policy options to mitigate militancy in Pakistan and the South Asian region in general, and U.S. role in South Asian crisis management.

Before joining USIP, Dr. Moeed Yusuf was a research fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Centre for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University’s Political Science Department, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard Kennedy School. He has also worked at the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Moeed Yusuf has taught in Boston University's Political Science and International Relations Departments as a senior teaching fellow in 2009. He lectures regularly at the