Wahiduzzaman Noor

Wahiduzzaman Noor is a national security scholar-practitioner working on Indo-Pacific security, with more than a decade of experience in counterterrorism and diplomacy. He most recently served as First Secretary at the Embassy of Bangladesh in Washington, DC, working on security cooperation with the United States, and before that as Senior Assistant Secretary in the North America Wing of Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Earlier, in Bangladesh's counterterrorism service, he was twice awarded the country's highest state honor for law enforcement, for gallantry and for service. He also advised the Government of Bangladesh on its national strategy for countering violent extremism.

Noor's analysis has been published by the Atlantic Council and the Stimson Center's South Asian Voices. He has been quoted or featured by The New York Sun, AFP, France 24 and Deutsche Welle, and has reviewed for Lawfare. He has lectured and delivered talks at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Naval Academy, Johns Hopkins SAIS, George Washington University and New York University. His expertise has been sought for external consultation by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Defense. He is a Fellow at the Bangladesh Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs, where he leads its Washington, DC chapter and serves on its editorial board.

He is currently a doctoral fellow at American University's School of International Service, where his research focuses on alliances, military modernization and Indo-Pacific security, as well as terrorism and proxy relationships. He holds a master's in Security Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.