Bettina Robotka is a historian. She was former Professor of South Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Humboldt University, Berlin. From 2005 to 2010 and 2012 to 2013, she joined the HEC foreign faculty programme as a full professor and taught at the IBA and IoBM Karachi. She is co-author of the book Blood over Different Shades of Green.
Dr. Farhan Hanif Siddiqui is Director and Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has also been associated with the Department of International Relations at the University of Karachi and the Middle East Research Institute in Erbil, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is the author of, The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements (London: Routledge, 2012).
Huma Baqai (contributor and anthology co-editor)
Dr. Huma Baqai is Associate Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at IBA Karachi. She was also associated with Department of International Relations, University of Karachi. Her teaching and research experience spans over a period of 25 years. She is a member Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, member Advisory Committee on Status of Women, Government of Sindh and Vice Chairperson, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations. She has been a part of Track-II and Track 1.5 diplomacy between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Dr. Ishrat Afshan Abbasi is Chairperson Department of International Relations at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro. Her research interests include peace and conflict studies and human security. She has represented Pakistan at various international forums.
Dr. Kaiser Bengali is an economist with over 40 years’ experience in teaching, research and policy advice in Pakistan and abroad. He has taught and conducted research at prestigious institutions in Pakistan and abroad and was Managing Director of the Social Policy Development Centre (SPDC). He has authored/edited nine books. He has also served as Head of the Chief Minister’s Policy Reform Unit, Government of Balochistan and Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh for Planning & Development. He was the first head and the architect of the Benazir Income Support Program. He was also Sindh’s representative on the 7th National Finance Commission and Balochistan’s representative on the 9th National Finance Commission.
Dr. Maria Saifuddin Effendi is Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, National Defence University. Her areas of expertise are Conflict Resolution and Peace-building. She has many national and international publications to her credit and is recipient of many fellowships.
Nausheen Wasi (contributor and anthology co-editor)
Dr. Nausheen Wasi is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi. She has over 20 years experience in research and teaching. She is visiting faculty at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), National Institute of Management (NIM) and a visiting fellow at Air War College, Karachi. She also worked at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA) for four years.
Dr. Rabia Akhtar heads Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research and School of Integrated Social Sciences, University of Lahore. She has authored the book ‘The Blind Eye: U.S. Non-proliferation Policy towards Pakistan from Ford to Clinton’. She is the Editor of Pakistan Politico. She is a member, the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. Dr. Akhtar is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center, Atlantic Council, US.
Sabiha Mehreen is Research Associate to Dr. Huma Baqai at IBA Karachi and has several publications with her. Her areas of interest include security and gender studies.
Dr. Saira Bano Orakzai is Research Associate at the Chair, Critical Studies in Higher Education, Nelson Mandela University and a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the Human Rights Consortium, UK. She was also a Research fellow at Harvard University and at the University of Oxford.
Sardar Masood Khan is the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He had a long diplomatic career. He was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2005 to 2008. He served as chief negotiator on nuclear security for the Nuclear Security Summit from 2009-2014. He has also served as the Director General of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.
Shahid Hameed is faculty International Relations at Women University Bagh, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Ph. D scholar at National Defence University, Islamabad. His areas of interest include security studies and globalization.
