Dr Aneel Salman serves as Chair of Economic Security at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI). An academic, trainer and researcher, he has extensive experience spanning the federal government, private sector, defence, foreign and intelligence services, and academia.

He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Maritime Study Forum, Islamabad, and as a Visiting Professor at the Institut Supérieur d’Économie et de Management, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Over the years, he has also held visiting faculty appointments at Pakistan’s Foreign Service Academy, Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development, Intelligence Bureau Academy, Police College Sihala and National Defence University.

Dr Salman has published extensively in international academic journals and books. His research and professional interests encompass economics, the blue economy, ecofeminism, institutional governance and climate change.

He holds a PhD and an MSc in Ecological Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. An alumnus of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), his academic affiliations also include University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Bern in Switzerland.