(Ret.) Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan

Feroz Hassan Khan is a former brigadier in the Pakistani army, with experience in combat action and command on active fronts on the Line of Control in Kashmir and Siachin Glacier and Afghanistan border. He has worked on numerous assignments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He served as director of arms control and disarmament affairs in Pakistan’s Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters. Khan was a key contributor in formulating Pakistan’s security policies on nuclear and conventional arms control and strategic stability in South Asia. He produced recommendations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations on peace and security in South Asia and international treaties related to weapons of mass destruction.   

Khan holds an MA in international relations from the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He has held a series of visiting fellowships at Stanford University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratory. He also taught courses as a visiting faculty member at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. He has participated in international and national conferences on strategic issues, international security, terrorism, nuclear arms control, and nonproliferation issues. He is widely known for his book Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb.