Moeed W. Yusuf
Moeed W. Yusuf is the South Asia adviser at the United States Institute of Peace Center in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention and is responsible for managing the Institute’s Pakistan program. Yusuf will be engaged in expanding USIP’s work on Pakistan to cover aspects that remain critical for the U.S. and Pakistan to better understand the other’s interests and priorities. His current research focuses on youth and democratic institutions in Pakistan, and policy options to mitigate militancy in the country.
Yusuf is a native of Pakistan. By training a political scientist, he has worked extensively on issues relating to South Asian politics, Pakistan’s foreign policy, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation, and human security and development in South Asia.
Before joining USIP, Yusuf was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard Kennedy School. He has also been affiliated with the Brookings Institution as a special guest. In 2007, he co-founded Strategic and Economic Policy Research, a private sector consultancy firm in Pakistan. Yusuf has also consulted for a number of Pakistani and international organizations. From 2004-2007, he was a full-time consultant with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan’s premier development-sector think tank. He has also consulted for the United States Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, UNESCO, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Innovative Development Strategies, Sungi Development Foundation and Pugwash International.
Yusuf taught in Boston University's Political Science and International Relations Departments as a senior teaching fellow in 2009. He had previously taught at the defense and strategic studies department at Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. He also lectured at the Pakistan Military Staff College and was a guest lecturer at NATO’s Center of Excellence-Defense Against Terrorism in Ankara, Turkey.
Yusuf has published widely in national and international journals, professional publications and magazines. He writes regularly for The Friday Times, Pakistan’s leading English weekly. He has also appeared as an expert on U.S. and Pakistani media including Fox News, Al Jazeera English, Voice of America, BBC, Wisconsin Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio (USA), Dawn News, AAJ TV, Geo News, TV One, Express News, SAMAA TV, Dunya TV (Pakistan), and ND TV (India).