Dr. Mansoor Ahmed is an Honorary Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University since January 2024. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad from 2018-2022, and a Stanton Junior Faculty Fellow and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow from 2015-2018 with the International Security Program/Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad from 2011 to 2015.

He began his career as a civil servant and served as an Assistant and Deputy Director in the Pakistan Audit and Accounts Service from July 2003 to January 2011. Dr. Ahmed holds a PhD in International Relations from QAU. His research interests include various aspects of Pakistani and Indian nuclear programs and postures and South Asian strategic stability issues. His research work has been published by the Belfer Center, the Stimson Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His first book entitled, Pakistan’s Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics and Rivalries was published by the Georgetown University Press in 2022.