Renowned author and expert on international affairs Dr Moeed Yusuf was appointed as the special assistant to the prime minister on national security and strategic planning on Tuesday, said a notification issued by the Cabinet Division.
The notification added that Dr Yusuf was appointed by Prime Minister Imran Khan and that he would hold the status of minister of state.
Dr Yusuf had earlier served as associate vice president of the Asia centre at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC.
In September, he was appointed as chairperson of the Strategic Policy Planning Cell (SPPC), which functions under the National Security Division (NSD).
The author of Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia, Yusuf has taught at Boston University, George Washington University, and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He is also a columnist for daily Dawn.
Yusuf holds a Masters in international relations and a PhD in political science from Boston University.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Yusuf before joining the USIP was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Centre at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre at Harvard Kennedy School.
He has also worked at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.
In 2007, Yusuf co-founded Strategic and Economic Policy Research, a private sector consultancy firm in Pakistan.
He has also consulted for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and the Stockholm Policy Research Institute, among others.
Between 2004 and 2007, Yusuf was a full-time consultant with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, according to his profile.
