Air Chief Marshal (Retd) Kaleem Saadat

Air Chief Marshal (Retd) Kaleem Saadat is President, Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) and former Chief of Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force. During his service of 38 years, he has held operational, command and staff appointments. He has a Masters degree in defence and strategic studies and is also a graduate of the Ecole Superiure de Guerre Inter Armee (ESGI) and Cours Superiure Inter Armee(CSI) at the Ecole Militaire at Paris, France. He was the member of directing staff at Air War College, Pakistan Air Force and Chief Instructor of National Defence Wing of the then National Defence College, now called the NDU, Islamabad. He is now Patron-in-Chief of Thinkers Forum Pakistan , of which he had been President and contributing writer for six years. He has also been the Patron of Pakistan Ex- Servicemen Association. He has keen interest in war, peace, airpower employment and development as well as global security and politics

Air Vice Marshal Aamir Masood

Air Vice Marshal Aamir Masood was commissioned in 1988 as Fighter Pilot in Pakistan Air Force. An accomplished Fighter Pilot having flown various fighter aircrafts on PAF inventory, and a graduate of the coveted Combat Commanders' School. He completed his Staff Course from Indonesia Command & Staff College, National Security and War Course from National Defence University, Islamabad and Masters in Defence Analysis from Naval Postgraduate School, California, USA. During his career spanning over 30 years, he has held various prestigious Command & Staff appointments.

In recognition of his distinguished services, Air Vice Marshal Aamir Masood has been awarded with Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) [Star of Excellence (Military)], Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) [Medal of Excellence (Military)] and Sitara-e-Basalat besides holding various Chief of the Air Staff Commendation Certificates and a Professional Excellence Badge. Presently he is serving as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (Traning).

Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani

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 E.U, and Australia. Ambassador Jilani also 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 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. Most recently, 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).

Air Marshal (Retd) Waseem ud din

Air Marshal (Retd) Waseem ud din is director 'Aerospace and Policy' at Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies Islamabad (CASS). He is a graduate of Combat Commanders School, Turkish Armed Forces Staff College and Royal College of Defense Studies (United Kingdom). He holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from King's College London. In his 40 years of illustrious career as a fighter pilot with Pakistan Air force, the Air Marshal flew various top of the line fighter aircraft and served in senior command and staff assignments. These include Director General Air force Strategic Command (AFSC), Air Officer Commanding Air Defense Command (ADC), Deputy Chief of Air Staff Administration and Deputy Chief of Staff Operations.

His specialist areas of research include strategic deterrence mechanisms, space, defense and foreign policy formulation. In recognition of his meritorious services, the Air Marshal has been decorated with the distinguished awards of, Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) and Sitara-i-Basalat.

AM M Ashfaque Arain (Retd)

Air Marshal (Retd) M Ashfaque Arain is director 'Strategic Defence and Security' at Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies Islamabad (CASS). He is a graduate of Combat Commanders’ School, PAF Air War College and National Defence Univeristy. He holds a Master's Degree in Defense & Strategic Studies from Air War College (AWC) and a Master's Degree in War Studies from National Defense University (NDU), Islamabad. In his 41 years of illustrious career as a fighter pilot with Pakistan Air force, the Air Marshal flew various top of the line fighter aircraft with a singular honour of being first PAF pilot to achieve 2000 hours on the F-16 aircraft. During his career, he has served in senior command and staff assignments including command of a fighter squadron, an operational base, Air Adviser Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, Chief Project director Horizon, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations), Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Plans), Director General Air force Strategic Command (AFSC), Director General Projects, and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (Administration).

Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sohail Malik

Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sohail Ahmad Malik has an extensive record of aviation industry engagement arising from his practitioner experience with the Pakistan Air Force over 36 years. He is a recipient of Professional Excellence Badge, Chief of the Air Staff Commendation Certificates, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military), Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), and Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military), and is a life-time member of Pakistan Engineering Council. AVM Malik was part of Pakistan's flagship JF-17 Production Project from its initiation to the completion of aircraft production at the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex; initially as Chief Engineer, later as Deputy Managing Director, and finally as the Managing Director. During his career he advanced through a series of increasingly responsible management positions in PAF. He had worked on various weapon systems in fighter squadrons, and performed engineering assignments at different operational bases. He held the office of Chief Maintenance Officer (CMO) of PAF's largest Engineering Depot, and Chief Engineer of Jet Engine overhauling facility at the Mirage Rebuild Factory.

Dr. Adil Sultan

Adil Sultan is a Director at Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), overseeing nuclear related issues. He works on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation; nuclear strategy and doctrines; cross domain deterrence; deterrence stability and nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs) in South Asia. He is the author of a book "Universalizing Nuclear Nonproliferation Norms: A Regional Framework for the South Asian Nuclear Weapon States," published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019). He has written several book chapters; research papers; and has contributed op-eds in leading Pakistani newspapers on issues related to national security. Dr Sultan has served in Pakistan Air Force for over 30 years and had worked at Pakistan's Strategic Plans Division (SPD) for the last 14 years, where he was Director Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs (ACDA), and later as Director Research and Analysis at the Policy, Doctrine and Strategy (PDS) Branch of the SPD. He has been part of Pakistan's delegations for several bilateral dialogues on arms control and strategic stability related issues, and has represented Pakistan at various global summits.

Dr. Usman W Chohan

Dr. Usman W. Chohan is an international economist and academic who specializes in the fields of public value theory, parliamentary fiscal scrutiny, the One Belt One Road and cryptocurrencies. He has previously had key affiliations with the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the National Bank of Canada. He was included among Australia's 50 Top Thinkers by the Conversation (2016), and he is among the Top 20 Business Authors (out of 12,000 authors) and Top 30 Overall Authors (out of 30,000 authors) on the Social Science Research Network, which is the largest open-repository of knowledge in the world. In the academic realm, his research has been cited widely, as for example in the World Trade Organization, the European Parliament, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Quantitative Finance, IEEE, the OECD, the ABC (Australia), the Sydney Morning Herald, the BBC, Genome Research, Gizmodo, among many others. His Doctoral work at UNSW (Australia) was to create the world's first multidisciplinary synthesis of Independent Fiscal Institutions, and he a post-doctoral fellowship with UNSW to continue that line of enquiry.