Rizwan Naseer

Dr. Rizwan Naseer is currently Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism Studies (CCTVES) at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), Islamabad. He previously served as Directing Staff at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Air War College Institute, Karachi, and as faculty at COMSATS and NUST University, Islamabad. He was a SUSI fellow at Bard College, New York, and a Postdoctoral visiting scholar at the South Asia Centre, London School of Economics (LSE), UK. He is a foreign affairs commentator for national and international media and regularly contributes to magazines and journals.