Fahad Nabeel is a Co-Founder and Research Lead at Geopolitical Insights, an Islamabad-based research consultancy firm. He has served as a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, National Defence University from 2022-2024 where he taught undergraduate courses on cyber security, terrorism, mass communication, international security, and intelligence studies. Fahad has significant experience examining South Asian geopolitical issues and militancy trends. His research interests include South Asia-based Islamist terror outfits, ethnonational militancy in Pakistan, security dimension of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Hindutva-centric groups, privacy and data protection, cyberwarfare, disinformation and UN peacekeeping.