Prof. Dr. Rifaat Hussain is a professor, analyst, former anchor and radio personality who served at Quaid-i-Azam University for 36 years. He is currently a professor and Chairman in the Department of Government Policy and Public Administration at Pakistan’s National University of Sciences and Technology. From 2003–2005, he served at National Defense University, Islamabad. He also served as the executive director at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) from 2005–2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In addition, Rifaat Hussain had been serving as a visiting professor at the Center for Intl. Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He was a visiting professor at CISAC, Stanford University for the 2012– 2013 academic year. He also served as a visiting professor at the Foreign Service Academy.