Syed Ali Zia Jaffery is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR), The University of Lahore. He is also the Associate Editor of Pakistan Politico. Ali was a Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center, Washington DC, and regularly writes on strategic issues for national and international publications. He is an alumnus of Woodrow Wilson Center’s Nuclear Proliferation International History Project's Nuclear History Boot Camp. He taught undergraduate level courses on foreign policy, national security, arms control and disarmament, and non-proliferation from 2018 until 2023. He is also a Graduate Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.