Management

Head of Non-Traditional Security Challenges & Research Executive, CGSS

Communication & Coordination Executive, CGSS

Project Executive, CGSS

Ms. Palwasha Nawaz is an International Relations expert with a special focus on Eurasian Region. She holds a degree in International Relations and a number of national and international publications to her name.

Ms. Nawaz is an active contributor to National and International Newspapers and Magazines. She has also appeared on various Radio Programs and Interviews. She has also moderated several conferences and seminars.

Ms. Palwasha Nawaz is currently working with the Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS) as a Project Executive. She is also the head of the CGSS’s subsidy organization by the name “The Platform” which offers customized training for the educational institutes and the corporate sector.

Ms. Nawaz is also serving as Deputy Director of Pakistan Research Center for a Community with Shared Future, jointly established by the Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS) and Communication University of China (CUC), Beijing.

Ms. Nawaz is a trainer in Project Management and Communications. She specializes in strategic level training and Portfolio building of various levels. Her role as a Professional Groomer and an advanced level managerial trainer is well known in the various universities in Pakistan.

Ms. Nawaz also handles the Women wing of various business councils set up jointly by CGSS and regional countries.

Executive Director, CGSS

Lieutenant Colonel Khalid Taimur Akram (Retd) is the Executive Director of Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS), Islamabad since September 2016 where he is responsible for implementing and developing plans, leading projects, and working with collaborators to achieve mission of CGSS of finding solutions for sustainable objective policies for regional, extra-regional and beyond. He continues to contribute his influential expertise to regional connectivity. He is an eminent expert on geo-strategic affairs with special emphasis on the Central Asian and Euro Asian region amid to enhance the prospects for regional connectivity and socio-economic linkages among the regional players.

He continues to contribute his influential expertise to regional connectivity in public forums around the globe; engaged in different activities, seminars, conferences in the region including SCO, China and Eurasian Countries.

He is an independent media and business consultant and a frequent commentator and guest analyst on various international radio and television broadcasts.

He is also a prominent business/marketing specialist who is actively involved with various business ventures in Eurasian Region.

At present, he is also holding the following portfolios:

1. Director, Pakistan Research Center for a Community with Shared Future, Communication University of China, Beijing, China (www.cuc.edu.cn)
2. Senior Executive Editor, National Herald Tribune, A leading English Newspaper in Pakistan (www.dailynht.com)
3.  Senior Vice President, Uzbekistan-Pakistan Business Council
4. Director (Operations), Regional Integration Center, University of the Punjab, Lahore (www.pu.edu.pk)
5. Member, Global Advisory Board, The National Academy of Belt & Road, Green Development, China International, Culture Exchange Center, Beijing, China 

He also has the honor of being international election observer in the following countries:

1. Uzbekistan
2. Azerbaijan  

He is also the Member of think tank platform network of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Resident Representative, HSF Pakistan