Imtiaz Gul

Imtiaz Gul is the Executive Director of Center for Research and Security Studies that he founded in December 2007, with the support of Germany’s Heinrich Boell Stiftung. The Center is a research and advocacy outfit, focused primarily on security, radicalization and governance. He has been contributing to international and national print media; Foreign Policy, USA, Wall Street Journal, The Friday Times (weekly), Islamabad, Daily Express Tribune, on issues such as militancy, border regions, Afghanistan, and Indo-Pak relations.

Besides offering advice as consultant to foreign diplomatic missions and development sector organizations, Gul regularly appears as an analyst/expert on  Pakistani TV channels as well as the Doha-based Al-Jazeera English/Arabic satellite TV channel for his expertise in areas such as Afghanistan/Tribal Areas/ and the Kashmir militancy.

Gul has presented papers and given talks at universities and international security and counter-terror conferences in Brussels, Tokyo, Berlin, New Delhi, Kabul, New York, Washington, the Hague, Riyadh, Italy, Oslo, Stockholm, Beijing, and has authored following books

• Pakistan: Before and After Osama bin Laden (Roli Books, India, September, 2012)
• The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan Lawless Frontier (Penguin US/UK June, 2010)
• Al-Qaeda Connection: Taliban and Terror in Tribal Areas (Penguin-Viking India, August 20, 2009)
• The Unholy Nexus: Pak-Afghan relations under the Taliban (Vanguard Books, Pakistan, July 2002)
• Pakistan: Pivot of Hizbut Tahrir’s Global Caliphate (2014)

Syed Amanullah Husaini

M.Sc. Honors (Agriculture); MS (Agriculture Economics)
Worked as Research Associate/Assistant Professor with Applied Economics Research Centre (Karachi University), and since 1995 worked as Freelance Consultant for various International Development Financial Institutions to undertake the financial and economic analysis of agriculture, irrigation, and rural development projects.

Syed Javed Hassan 

Syed Javed Hassan is Advisor to the Centre for Research and Security Studies. He’s former Chairman of the Economic Advisory Group a leading independent think tank on economics. He has been visiting Senior Fellow at the Pakistan Study Centre, Fudan University, China. Previously, he served as Chairman of Pakistan’s National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) and sat on multiple public and private sector boards.

Sameena Durrani

Sameena Durrani has over twenty years of experience in the development sector. She is a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women. She is author of several publications on gender, peace and conflict, leadership development, human rights and inter-faith issues.

 Syed Ali Ahmed

Syed Ali Ahmed is a Nationally recognized communication professional with 30 years of experience in managing corporate marketing and advertising communications for leading companies across diverse industries. He is a professional of account management, creative teams, multimedia divisions, corporate communications and public relations. He specializes in conceptualising and orchestrating marketing and PR campaigns that effectively reinforce and build brand images in the public and private sectors. He has extensive knowledge of planning, marketing, business communications and media relations, having excellent business acumen with clear concepts of the communication mix.

 Arshad H Abbasi

Arshad Abbasi has 30 years of experience as a Monitoring & Post Project Evaluation Specialist, Transboundary Water manager, Inland Water Transport and trade Specialist, Energy Specialist, and Researcher. Abbasi has worked for various Chinese think tanks in Indian Ocean countries.

His work also includes a detailed and in-depth analysis of the Maritime energy policies and governance of Indian countries, Economics and social dimensions of energy management, Renewable energy including ocean energy applicable to the maritime industry, Marine technology and innovation related to energy and Trend analyses of the Indian Ocean, technology and its impact on the maritime industry. Furthermore, he has worked on the evaluations of International Land-Sea Trade Corridors, especially on the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) including Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar Economic Corridors (BCIM), and The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).