Dr. Rizwana Abbasi is Professor at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. She is currently a Fellow at Central European University, Austria, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad. She has previously been associated with several leading academic and policy institutions, including the EastWest Institute, New York, the Stimson Center, USA, the University of Leicester, UK, and the University of Leeds, UK.

She has also served as Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bahria University, Islamabad, and in the Department of International Relations at the National Defence University, Islamabad. Dr. Abbasi is a graduate of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, and holds a PhD in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Leicester.

Her scholarship focuses on nuclear politics, strategic stability, arms control, emerging technologies, deterrence, disarmament, and South Asian security. She has authored several important books, including Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan; Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament: Bridging the Gap between Competing Approaches; Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace; and Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime.

Dr. Abbasi's association with the GPS Forum as Senior Fellow adds value to GPSF's growing community of distinguished scholars and practitioners, strengthening its work on strategic stability, arms control, regional security, and informed policy dialogue.