Mosharraf Zaidi is a Pakistani-Canadian public policy professional and the founder and CEO of , an Islamabad-based policy think-tank. He writes a weekly column for The News International and is a senior advisor for the Albright Stonebridge Group. Previously, he served as a Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2011 and 2013 under Hina Rabbani Khar, the former Foreign Minister of Pakistan.