An academic with more than fifteen years of experience, Kashif Mumtaz is Additional Directing Staff at National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) Lahore. Prior to joining NIPA, he was associated with the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) as Senior Research Fellow. He also served as the Editor, Strategic Studies, ISSI’s flagship quarterly journal. He has more than 15 journal articles to his credit, published in academic journals in Pakistan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He has presented his work at international conferences/seminars in Australia, China, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Kingdom. He has held a visiting fellowship at John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

He holds a masters in History from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and another masters in International Affairs from Australian National University, Canberra. He did his MPhil in Development Studies at University of Oxford. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong. He has won a number of nationally and internationally competitive scholarships including Australia-Pakistan Scholarship Award (2006), Endeavor Executive Award (2008) (both awarded by the Australian Government), Michael Wills Scholarship (2011) (awarded by the University of Oxford), and Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2020) (awarded by the Hong Kong Government).