Yasir Masood has years of experience in research, communication, training, and development. He is a broadcast journalist, security and political analyst, development practitioner, strategic and communication expert, academic, researcher, columnist/writer, English linguist, and poet. Yasir writes for top English national and international dailies such as China Daily, China Economic Net, People’s Daily, CCTV.com and CGTN (Beijing), Sputnik (Moscow), Express Tribune, The Nation, Daily Times, The News International, Pakistan Observer, (Pakistan), Azaar.com (Azerbaijan). Additionally, he has been featured on numerous talk shows on PTV World Pakistan (English), Islamabad and other TV stations like CCTV of China, Phoenix TV of Hong Kong, Press TV of Iran, Aljazeera of Qatar, and others. As a political commentator, he has been interviewed and featured on FM-98 Dosti Channel, Radio Pakistan, Islamabad, China Radio International (CRI), Xinhua News, China Economic Net, CCTV, and other Chinese media, with his articles being translated into multiple languages.

Yasir also taught at Islamabad’s Quaid-e-Azam and National Defense Universities. He has also authored four Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)-approved foreign policy papers and represented Pakistan at more than fifteen national and international conferences on the South Asian security matrix, terrorism, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), media, narratives, fake news, and misinformation.

He is a National Media Workshop Alumni at the National Defence University (NDU) and a certificate holder of National Media Workshop-7 (6-17 April 2015) at NDU, Islamabad. Yasir is also a Designated Research Fellow at Grandview Institute, Beijing, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Hebei University and Jiangsu Normal University’s BRI Department in China.

Yasir Masood also edited a book, “Indian Grand Strategy: Machiavellian or Kautilyan,” Institute of Regional Studies (Pangraphics Printing, Islamabad), 2015. He is a Doctoral candidate at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) and possesses an MSc in International Relations from Kingston University of London (UK) and a Master in English Literature from Punjab University (Pakistan).