Moeed Yusuf

Moeed W. Yusuf is a Pakistani scholar and author. He 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. He previously served as the Chairman of the Strategic Policy Planning Cell. He has also served as the associate vice president at the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia.[1]

Previously, he wrote columns for The Friday Times, and had taught courses on political economy and defense economics at the Quaid-i-Azam University.[2]

He holds permanent residency of the United States.[3]

Education

He holds Bachelors of Business Administration from the Shorter College; Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Boston University.[2]

Career

Yusuf served as the associate vice president at the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

Work
  • 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]
gollark: GPT-3 apparently already reaches "plausibly human-written if you're not concentrating much", and apparently the architecture scales quite nicely.
gollark: Rust is a neat language.
gollark: Sounds fun.
gollark: It would be interesting if they scaled it up another order of magnitude or two.
gollark: Neural network stuff, and the fancy GPT models, tend to be better, but also far more complex and computationally intensive.

References
  1. "Chairperson SPPC Bio". National Security Division.
  2. https://www.bu.edu/pardee/community/moeed-yusuf/
  3. https://www.thenews.com.pk/amp/688826-asset-details-of-pms-special-assistants-advisers-made-public
  4. "USIP dismisses false claims against Dr Moeed Yusuf". Business Recorder. October 4, 2019.
  5. "Moeed appointed planning cell chief". Dawn. September 26, 2019.
  6. "PM appoints Dr Moeed Yusuf as special assistant on national security". The Express Tribune. December 24, 2019.
  7. "Book Review: Brokering peace in nuclear environments". The Express Tribune. September 12, 2018.


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