Ambassador Touqir Hussain

I am a former senior diplomat from Pakistan, having served as Ambassador to Brazil, Spain and Japan ( 1998 - 2003 ). I also held senior positions in the Pakistani Foreign Office, including that of Additional Foreign Secretary heading the bureaus of the Middle East and of the Americas and Europe.

From 1996 to 1998, I was the Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister where I had an opportunity to work with the whole range of foreign policy issues at the highest policy levels.

I moved to the United States after my long diplomatic career ended in 2003. I was a Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace for 2004-2005, and since then have been a Research Fellow at the George Washington University. I am also currently adjunct professor at the Georgetown University and the University of Virginia Charlottesville.

My overall specialization is South Asian security issues, the Kashmir dispute, U.S Pakistan relations, civil military relations, democracy in the Islamic world, political Islam, terrorism, and U.S. relations with the Islamic world. I have written nearly thirty op-ed pieces for American and Pakistani newspapers on some of these issues.

I have also been a guest speaker at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; American University, Washington DC; George Washington University, Washington DC; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management, Dayton Ohio; National Defense University Washington DC, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, and World Affairs Council Peoria IL.