Hassan Abbas is an accomplished scholar, media commentator and an author.

Dr. Hassan Abbas is a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, a Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) and an Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. He was recently named the Quaid-i-Azam Chair by New York’s Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His research interests are Pakistan's nuclear program and the Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan controversy; religious extremism in South and Central Asia, and "Islam and the West."