Sitara Noor

Prior to CISAC, Sitara Noor served as the "Managing the Atom" Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2022 to 2024. In 2023, she was a Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Prior to these roles, she was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 2019 to 2022. She also held the position of Research Fellow at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) in Vienna, Austria, during 2016–2017. Earlier in her career, she worked as an International Relations Analyst at the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (2008 to 2015).

In addition to her research roles, Noor has taught as adjunct faculty at several prestigious institutions, including the National University of Modern Languages, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Quaid-i-Azam University, the Foreign Services Academy of Pakistan, and the Information Services Academy of Pakistan.