MA in International Relations, Ph.D. in Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra. Project Director for South Asia, International Crisis Group. Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University. Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad. Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi. Visiting Fellow, Oxford University. Visiting Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Publications include: several book chapters and articles in academic journals and print media, The United States and Terrorism in Southwest Asia: September 11 and Beyond, International Security, Vol. 26; Military Professionalism in Asia: Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives (2001).