Rifaat Hussain (born January 9, 1953) is a professor, analyst, television personality, former anchor and radio personality who served at Quaid-i-Azam University for 36 years.
From 2003–2005, he had been serving at the National Defense University, Islamabad after rejoining in 2012.
Rifaat Hussain served as the executive director at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) from 2005–2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.He also hosted famous talk shows "Saweray Saweray" and "News Night", both on PTV and "Insight with Dr.
Rifaat Hussain" on News One for four months.
In addition, Rifaat Hussain had been serving as a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
He is one of the leading professors and analysts in Pakistan.
He was a visiting professor at CISAC, Stanford University for the 2012–2013 academic year.
In late 2013, Rifaat Hussain hosted his own radio show "Nuqta-E-Nazar" on Radio Pakistan for two months.
He served as a visiting professor at the Foreign Service Academy and is currently a professor and chairman in the Department of Government Policy and Public Administration at Pakistan's National University of Sciences and Technology.