Leadership and experts

Mr. Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, 2002 to 2007, and former caretaker Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs.

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri is the founding Chairman of the Institute of Peace and Connectivity (IPAC) and Chairman of the Beaconhouse Group. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, he was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn, London, and studied at the Sorbonne, Paris. He served as Pakistan's Foreign Minister from 2002 to 2007, an eventful tenure during which Pakistan was designated a Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States, defense and civil nuclear cooperation with China was substantially deepened, the Gwadar Port was completed, and F-16 acquisition agreements were finalized.