Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani

Former Advisor to President CASS on Foreign Policy

 
 

Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani

Professional Experience

Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani has 38 years of bilateral and multilateral experience as a career diplomat, having served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Belgium, Luxemburg and the EU, and Australia. Ambassador Jilani was part of the Caretaker Cabinet of GoP (2023) as Minister of Foreign Affairs; and previously served as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, the top civil service official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

A specialist in South Asian affairs, Ambassador Jilani has also worked as Director General for South Asia and SAARC, Deputy/Acting High Commissioner to India and Director (India) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2018, the Government of Pakistan nominated Ambassador Jilani as member of the Experts and Eminent Persons Group (EEP) of the ASEAN Regional Forum and later in 2019, as member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Jilani has served as a Senior Fellow at both the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). 
His areas of research include international / regional developments and their implications on Pakistan; analysing emerging foreign policy challenges; and Pakistan’s foreign policy choices in evolving situations. 

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