Hassan Abbas (born 1969) is a Pakistani-American scholar and academic in the field of South Asian and Middle Eastern studies.
Abbas was a visiting scholar at the Islamic Legal Studies Program (2002–2003) and at the Negotiation Project (2003–2004) at Harvard Law School.
From 2005–2009, Abbas was a research fellow and from 2009–2011, an adviser at the Belfer Centre for Science and International affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
[1] From 2009–2011, Abbas was also Quaid-i-Azam Chair professor at the South Asia Institute and School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University in New York.
In 2012, Abbas led the Independent Commission on Police Reforms in Pakistan, funded by the Asia Society.