Dr. Daud Munir

Dr Daud Munir is an Islamabad based lawyer and political scientist. He is a Member of the New York Bar, and an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan. 

He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Yale Law School, his PhD in Politics from Princeton University, and his MBA from Yale School of Management. 

Before relocating to Pakistan, Dr Munir was practicing law at the New York office of Covington & Burling, a global law firm with offices in United States, Europe, East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. At Covington, he represented and advised clients (including Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, and international organizations) on transactional, regulatory, and international law matters. 

At Yale Law, he was Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. At Princeton, he taught courses on areas related to International Humanitarian Law and Middle East Politics, was also a Fellow of Princeton’s Program in Law & Public Affairs, as well as a Fellow of the Lichtenstein Institute on Self Determination. 

He is currently the Managing Partner of the law firm Dialectic Matters, and a Senior Advisor (Law & Policy Affairs) at the Public Private Partnership Authority, Government of Pakistan. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, USAid, and other international agencies.