Draft:Rasul Bakhsh Rais

Rasul Bakhsh Rais is a Pakistani political scientist, academic, and writer. He is a professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2002. His research areas include South Asia and security studies.

Early life and education
Rasul Bakhsh Rais was born in 1947 in Rajanpur, Punjab, British India. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of the Punjab in 1970, followed by a master of arts in political science from the same university in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981.

Career
Rais has held several fellowships, including the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984–85, the Hoover Institution Fellowship at Stanford University in 1985, and the Social Sciences Research Fellowship at Harvard University in 1988–89. He was the Distinguished Quaid-i-Azam Professor at Columbia University from 1991 to 1994, where he also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Additionally, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Wake Forest University in 1998–99.

Before joining LUMS, Rais was a professor of international relations and political science at Quaid-i-Azam University for 22 years, including over a decade as Director of the Area Study Centre.

Rais served as director general of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad from August 2013 to December 2015.

Awards and recognition

 * 2003: Pride of Performance
 * 2009: Sitara-e-Imtiaz